The sport of soaring is getting major publicity this summer from Luthansa who have placed a 10 page article in their in-flight magazine about soaring and the world contest. Click the link below to read it. It is written in both German and English
http://wgc2008.org/uploads/media/Artiicle_Lufthansa_Magazin_Schleicher_by_Marc_Bielefeld.pdf