posted Aug 13th, 2006 - The Malevsky Cup 2006 begins as the World Meet 2006 ended - with teams remaining on stand-by status all day long. The 4-way event has a lower priority this time since Canopy Relative Work and Accuracy/Style hold their world championships at the Malevsky Cup 2006. Teams and competitors of these two other two events have already been in the air.

The NSL News used some of the ground time to discuss the World Meet 2006 in hindsight with the French competitor and coach Erwan Pouliquen. He won the gold medal in Germany as the technical coach and alternate with the French 8-way team. He also won the silver medal in the 4-way event with his team France Gap Nice Icarius Autrement.

Erwan Pouliquen is a sports teacher in the French school system, and he also qualified as the French 8-way coach with his own competition experience after approx. 4000 jumps with the French 8-way team in the mid and late 90's. He won the world championship in 4-way with two of his current team mates in 2003.

He admitted that his team did not expect to win a 4-way medal in Germany and commented the problems with the semi- and final rounds at the World Meet 2006. The Spa Hayabusa case was also a topic of the interview in Stupino. Round ten of the Malevsky Cup's competition draw promises a new world record, and Erwan Pouliquen expects his own team to score around 45 points if the jump goes well. He thinks that a trained team can score up to 50 points with this sequence.

The video of the interview can be viewed by clicking here.

The 4-way teams were just released for today, the NSL News will be back tomorrow.