Ekiden athletes' transfer of high school

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Due to indirect influence of the catastrophic earthquake last March, 10 Ekiden team members who went to one of prestigious high school in the area severely hit by the quack decided to change their school far away from the prefecture, which school was also famous for its tough ekiden team.    Ekiden is long distance running by several team members.  The original ekiden team won good grade in national ekiden competitions every year, but last year it did not that good due partly to bad physical and mental training condition caused by the quake.  Another reason was reportedly resignation of a good coach too.

On the other hand, the association of high school track and field club in the prefecture to which 10 members transferred has to face with a difficult question.  They have a national rule to ban transferred students from joining competition as a new team member within six months.  The policy of the rule is to prevent schools from correct potential high school athletes unfairly.  However, the the rule was not strictly applied in the case where students evacuated from the area hit by the big earthquake in light of a humane perspective.  The association committee will make a final decision how to apply the rule to this case.

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I used to be into track and field club in my high school and college days.  I feel sympathy to those who evacuated from the area, but I do not think it is good and fair for the school which admitted the students to get too strong due to the contribution by the members.