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[mailto:OverallDiscLink@yahoogroups.com] På vegne af Daniel Roddick
Sendt: 11. december 2006 20:22
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Emne: [OverallDiscLink] Update on Christer Fuglesang in Space!

From Peter Lundmark of SFF:
Stork,

Check this in Aftonbladet which is one of major newspapers:

http://www.aftonbladet.se/ if you scroll down a bit on this site you´ll come
to RYMDEXTRA and therer is a picture of Christer from 1978.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,951802,00.html and this
is the link to where Aftonbladet tells the story about the event in the
space when Christer will try to break the record.


And here is the release that we´ve sent to the media in Sweden so far.
/Peter

European Space Agency to host flying disc competition in space

On Friday, December 15th, the European Space Agency is the host of a unique
sporting
event. Supported by the World Flying Disc Federation, the Swedish Frisbee
Sport
Federation are proud to sanction this unprecedented event. Christer
Fuglesang, ESA
astronaut on the Space Shuttle Discovery Mission STS-116, will attempt to
break the world
record in the flying disc sporting discipline MTA, Maximum Time Aloft.
The competition will start at seven minutes past seven GMT in the evening of
Friday,
December 15th, 2006. We believe that this is the first ever sanctioned
sports event that
takes place in space.

The rules of MTA are simple: A player shall attempt to throw the disc in
such a fashion
that the disc remains airborne for as long as possible, before catching the
disc himself.
The timing of the flight of the throw shall be measured from the instant of
release until
the instant the disc is initially touched in the catching attempt.

In this specific competition, Christer is free to waive the recommendation
in the rules that
an additional disc be available in the event a disc is lost or becomes
unsuitable for use.

The MTA world record stands at an impressive 16.72 seconds and was set by
Don Cain
(USA), on 5/26/84, in Philadelphia, PA. The sanction for the attempt to
break it was
formally announced by the Swedish Frisbee Sport Federation on December 10th,
2006.
Competition supervisors are Helen Page, European Space Agency, and Jonas
Bengtsson,
Södertörns Frisbee Klubb, Sweden.
Astronauts on the shuttle:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts116/index.html

Schedule:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/mission_schedule.html

The World Flying Disc Federation
The main aims of the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) are to encourage
and protect
the spirit of flying disc play where as partners rather than opponents we
compete against
the limits of our own abilities rather than each other, to encourage disc
play throughout
the world and to establish and uphold a tournament standard for all flying
disc
competition worldwide.
In addition to Field events, of which MTA is one discipline, WFDF is
responsible for hosting
World Championships and developing the Rules of the Game for the following
flying disc
sports: Ultimate, Disc golf, Freestyle, Guts and Double Disc Court. WFDF has
member
associations in 46 countries. WFDF is a full member of both GAISF (General
Association of
International Sports Federations) and IWGA (International World Games
Association). WFDF
is also a signatory to the Wold Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code.
WFDF Contact
Anne-Marie Carey, Executive Director
annemarie.carey@...
Phone Int +1 (604) 876-9280

Event contact
Jonas Bengtsson
bengtsson@...
Phone Int +46 70 996 996 2




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