The meeting of the International Sailing Federation's Events Committee has just voted on its schedule of ten Events for the 2016 Olympic Sailing Regatta.
The report from the Committee will now go to the ISAF Council to be 'received' which then triggers a discussion and debate as to whether the Council endorse the Recommendation or amend it.
The list of 10 events is believed to be:
Mens and Womens Windsurfer (RS:X) and Kiteboard
Mens Singlehander (Laser)
Womens Singlehander (Laser Radial)
Mens HP Skiff (49er)
Womens HP Skiff (Evaluation Trial)
Mixed Multihull (Evaluation Trial) (One female, one male crew)
Mens Heavyweight Singlehander (Finn)
Mens Doublehander (Spinnaker) 470
Womens Doublehander (Spinnaker) 470
The outcome of the vote is that there will be no Keelboat event in the 2016 Olympics, if the recommendation is endorsed by the ISAF Council meeting tomorrow, Friday and Saturday.
Wow!
The Star is out.
The women's keelboat match racing is out.
The cat is back.
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I know a woman who that cat reminds me of.
I know a cat who reminds me of a woman.
No Keelers - now that is not gonna be fun nor fair, might rather watch the chess nationals then.
BUT the cats are back, yay, so that should keep the action going
Cats good, lack of keelboats divorces Olympics from a huge chunk of the sport.
It ain't over yet. Apparently the Executive Committee of ISAF have now met and come out in favor of putting both keelboat classes back in at the expense of the two high performance skiff classes. I guess the Council will have the final say.
The Olympics mean many different things to many different people but i have always assumed that the majority of 'punters' associate sporting endeavour with youth and physical exertion. Hardly fits with knocking out the skiffs in favour of keel boats in my mind!
Poesje
I think it would make more sense to eliminate the 470 in favor of keeping the skiffs and the keelboats (Star and women's match racing keelboat). Isn't the 470 effectively just an precursor to modern high performance skiffs anyway?
Definitely makes more sense. So probably will never happen.
Did the keel drop off the ISAF boat?
No Keel boats? Have these fools forgotten what sailing is? Won't be worth watching
Guess the council decided that Olympic Sailing is "No country for old men" in banishing keelboats.
Exactly right Pat. I'm not sure who said it but the best summary of this issue I have heard is something along the lines of "Sailing is a lifetime sport. That doesn't mean that the Olympics is a lifetime event."
The Olympics (in every sport) is about the fittest, the fastest, the strongest... which primarily means the young.
Cheer up! Paul Elvstrom was like sixty or something last time he was in the Olympics; Sailing the Tornado.
True Noodle. Which just goes to show that you don't need a keelboat in the Olympics to allow exceptional athletes to continue competing there even when they are no longer young.
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