New women's Olympic boat

I haste to mention that Pierre is NOT talking from experience..

Team racing is part of the ISAF Worlds... I think the UK will be on the podium! Personnally if Team Racing was in the Olympics I would be trying for that spot!!! I think it would be good for the sport if TR was part of the games. My understanding is that the restriction is on the number of sailors, not the number of classes... So people could do fleet and team racing (like doing individual races and the relay). Although obviously some Olympic sailors would be the wrong size for freddies!!!

Use country flags/ provided boats

Well, more or less....it was actually mainly designed for inter-Scandanavian competition. 

Sort of; the Games were a consideration when the boats was chosen. In design terms, the Finn was very much like a cut-down Swedish C Class (development class) cruiser/racer canoe, with the pointy back cut off. If you look at Sarby's drawings, it was even originally trimmed down a long way by the bow so its waterline shape was very canoe-ish.

Like the Swedish canoes, the design competition called for a boat that could be used for cruising, with the skipper sleeping under a boom tent. Sarby was a hairdresser and designed the boat to be suitable for home building by amateurs like himself.  For many years, the boats used in the Olympics were  supplied by the  host country and few or no changes could be made.

I just mentioned those details, because the Finn sailors sometimes abuse the Laser because it was initially designed as a fun boat, and they say a real test of skills cannot be found in a SMOD. That's a funny attitude when the Finn (great boat) is actually a handyman hairdresser's cruising boat which was originally a SMOD at the Games!