Bringing Change To Procedures

Harri Syväsalmi Meets DanceSport Again © Roland

The Presidential Task Force to Combat Competition Manipulation (CCM TF) in DanceSport met in Vienna, AUT, on Sunday 20 November. In their second meeting since the task force was created earlier this year, the three members - President Lukas Hinder, ethics in sports expert Harri Syväsalmi and the author of the WDSF Code of Ethics Daniel Stehlin - started the process of conducting hearings with some of the different stakeholders in DanceSport. While these hearings - actually, they are very informal and un-minuted meetings - are kept confidential by the parties, the TF reports on the outcome of all of its other deliberations.

In this case, WDSF takes pride in announcing that another anti-manipulation measure that is based on the recommendations of the task force gets implemented after both the Sports Commission and the Managing Committee have approved it.

Deviating from the procedure in the past - and for a trial period of a still undetermined duration - WDSF will publish the names of all the Adjudicators making up the panels at title and GrandSlam events. The following Adjudicators will officiate at the 2016 WDSF GrandSlam Finals in Shanghai on 1o and 11 December.

2016 GrandSlam Finals Shanghai | Panel of Adjudicators

Marie Raiend	NZL
Atsushi Yamada	JPN
Andrey Shamshurov	RUS
Petra Matschullat-Horn	GER
Domenico Soale	ITA
Petr Pastorek	SVK
Zhang Qingshu	CHN
Diana Mitt	EST
Jens Werner	DEN
Tatsiana Lavinovich	BLR
Denise Mayes	England
Martynas Kura	LTU