Indoor World Championship
SINCE THE beginning of FAI Indoor World Championships in 1961 it has taken 15 years for the U.S.A. to regain its title. It gives me great pleasure to report on the grand style in which it was captured. The outstanding performances of each member of the team were highlighted by the high scores of Bud Romak who not only won the Rushbrooke trophy, but the Kopecky trophy as well, to give the U.S.A. a clean sweep of all awards. Quite a bit of controversy arose over the new point system team selection program in the U.S.A. There are many ways to pick a team, but the odds of who will win throughout the years will still remain the same. Most participants agreed that this program managed to select some of the best fliers through a cross-section of the country and one of the strongest teams we ever had.
Indoor World Championships
THE UNITED STATES captured first, second, and third place, plus the team award and the prize for the most ingenious model, at the 1984 Indoor World Championships in Nagoya, Japan. It was the first time in history that a country has made a clean sweep in the Indoor event. As manager of the three-member team, it is my pleasure to report on the happenings leading to the most prestigious showing ever by a competing team-a feat which will go in the record books and hopefully will not be broken for some time to come. When it was announced that Japan would be hosting the Indoor World Championships, there was no shortage of contenders to make up the U.S. team. The American finals at West Baden, IN was the most competitive I have seen, and it produced a rather unusual team.
