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The legendary Polish former National speedway team coach, Marek Cieslak, commented in sportowefakty.pl results of Poland’s sport Personality 2024 plebiscite announced yesterday. When mentioning fifth placed achieved by the 5-times world champion, Bartosz Zmarzlik, and problems with speedway, Marek Cieslak said this: It is a complex issue. We need the successes of our national teams, which we do not have. We have achieved the best league in the world, which has great viewership. The problem is that the Grand Prix series cannot keep up with this at all, and it is folding down. This is visible, for example, in the locations. There are no new ones, and in addition, large stadiums are slowly disappearing. The FIM and the promoter Discovery are responsible for this. In addition, the best riders in the world do not ride in the series. The recent nominations for wild cards and their translation into geographical terms are a joke. All this means that the Grand Prix arouses interest in fewer and fewer countries. I have the impression that even here (i.e. in Poland) it does not generate the same emotions as it used to. If it were, the successes and the phenomenon of Zmarzlik would have a much greater echo in the country. Do you think that it is time for Artiom Łaguta and Emil Sajfutdinov to return to the series? Initially I was against them, but now I think they should be in the series. Zmarzlik would also benefit from the presence of Artiom Łaguta or Emil Sayfutdinov. I have no doubt that he would still win, but then his successes, this rivalry with the Russians would arouse much more emotions. In this way, the audience would be larger. Please remember what rivals Tomasz Gollob had. He had to compete with Tony Rickardsson, Greg Hancock, Billy Hamill, Jason Crump, Mark Loram, Hans Nielsen, Leigh Adams, Ryan Sullivan and many other great stars. Each of them had papers for the title. Now the series lacks such figures.

Well said !

I wonder why ?

Championships titles are not awarded to the top rider in any league's averages.

PZM is already doing this...it is called The International EkstraLiga Individual Championships

Nice one !

...best Polish rider in Ekstraliga? This statement is not correect, unless you mean Best EkstraLiga rider with the Polish licence.

They are not. Holding the Polish licence doesn't make them Polish. They are, and always will be an individuals with dual citenzenships: Rusian and Polish.

Artem has not said much about him being in the series. Interview was about top riders in the Polish Extraliga as far as their CMA were concerned. Artem holds the top spot in the CMA recokonigs an Bartek hold the top spot as far as the world titles are concerned. Marek Cieslak said that personally he regrets that Artem is not in the GP series,and Artem remarked : so do I.

Peter Collins won here his world title

http://kergel.ucoz.lv/index/live_stream_2/0-12 has been blocked need another stream, PLEASE

The speedway season on Polish tracks will begin on March 24, and the first official competition will be the Aces Criterion of the Polish Speedway Leagues.According to the local daily newspaper “Gazeta Pomorska” The following riders confirmed their participation (as on 20th Feb.) Bartosz Zmarzlik (Lublin), Artiom Łaguta (Wrocław), Kai Huckenbeck (Bydgoszcz), Patryk Dudek (Toruń), Krzysztof Buczkowski (Bydgoszcz), Jarosław Hampel (Zielona Góra) , Wiktor Przyjemski (Lublin), Szymon Woźniak (Gorzów), Dominik Kubera (Lublin), Jason Doyle (Grudziądz), Andreas Lyager (Bydgoszcz), Andrzej Lebiediew (Leszno), Maciej Janowski (Wrocław) , Tim Sørensen (Bydgoszcz). Tickets can be purchased at the club's ticket office (open on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and online at sklep.polonia.bydgoszcz.pl TICKET PRICES: Sector B: PLN 40/£8.00 regular, PLN 30/£6.00 reduced Sector A: PLN 45/£9.00 regular, PLN 35/£7.00 reduced New Stand: PLN 60/£12.00 regular, PLN 50/£10.00 reduced Main Stand: PLN 120/£24.00 normal Main Stand: VIP (catering + program): PLN 250/£50.00 Reduced tickets are available to women, pensioners and people aged 8-16. Children under 7 years of age have free admission (no guarantee of a place). Ticket for wheelchair users - PLN 1 (with guardian).

Me too !

I don't think that "you" in English is written with capital letter, except at the beginning of a sentence.

Krzysztof Cegielski, former Poole Pirates rider draws attention on social media to one detail. Point 12, paragraph 3 of the regulations on competition in the Speedway Grand Prix lists offenses and the amounts of penalties.According to him, it is worth paying attention to the last sentence preceding the list of penalties. It reads as follows: "The international jury may sanction any persons breaking the rules as follows. The word "may", becomes crucial. So could the competition jury both punish Zmarzlik and "reduce" the penalty,. So far, no one has commented on whether such a severe punishment was necessary. There is no doubt, says Krzysztof Cegielski. – “The jury didn't have to do anything, it just could. They did it with a smile on their faces - comments the former rider on social media, pointing out the key word in the case, in his opinion, "may". If in fact Zmarzlik did not have to suffer such a high penalty ,then undoubtedly not all "important" people are clearly favorable to Polish speedway and, as it turns out, they do not remember the most important thing. For many years, Speedway Grand Prix has been generating the greatest profits from Polish speedway.