http://www.syndergaard.dk/wp/?p=77

Mads Syndergaard, XC Magazine's man at the 2011 Paragliding World Championships,
writes:

All in all, for me personally, what comes out of this whole mess
isn’t actually very important as I have flown my last FAI-run event. I refuse to
take part in anything as potentially dangerous as paragliding race events when
they aren’t specifically made FOR me and my peers, BY my peers. FAI is
apparently very unclear about what or whom Cat 1 events are actually for, but
from participating in 12 Cat 1 events since 1994 I can say one thing for sure –
they aren’t for the pilots, we’re just the supernumeraries making up the
numbers. When that is the case there is just too much that can go wrong.

I think we, the pilots, should take a stance here and say NO to the CIVL. You
have no place in our lives, we don’t want to fly in your Cat 1 events no matter
how many clever safety rules you devise – we want to fly comps where the
emphasis is on our fun, our learning, our friendships, our enjoyment, NOT on
queues, speeches, flag-waving or Schnitzel-führering, and since we’re generally
footing the bill I think this isn’t such an audacious demand to make.