This is such a tough issue.
On the one hand, I can fully appreciate where AI is coming from.
On the other, I fully support the way in which GB and the committee have handled this. There has been appropriate consultation. There has also been the rather more robust airing of views here on the forum. All fair enough, I say.
The sad fact remains that a sport we all profess to love for its freedom and reconnection with nature is slowly being strangled with red tape and bureaucracy by a combination of creeping litigiousness, growing protectionism, reluctance to accept risk and the godawful stupidity of many people who think that sensible minimum rules do not apply to them. I don't think the sport has any chance of preserving its original nature given all those factors.
