Olympic Sailing - interesting paper

He has a point in terms of venues with examples such as china and Rio being pretty bad venues in terms of conditions and bacterial infections.

In terms of classes the Olympics is looking to reduce numbers overall as this is closely linked to costs and sailing has to go with this as most of its funding comes from this. In my view as sailing has a voting system with no real strategic leadership then this leads to pretty bad decision making. Sailing needs more direct leadership and if we had this then we might have a better mix of classes in the Olympics.

Originally posted by iGRF Devils Advocate again here, but why does sailing think it's so special it has to have such a variety of types?

You may as well ask why there have to be so many different ways of swimming up and down the same pool...

1 board, a set of medals per gender:

Edited by turnturtle - 21 Mar 18 at 12:29pm

although most sailors I know who watched the latest AC ate humble pie about their (myself included) preconceptions of what makes good TV watching for sailing

Originally posted by iGRF Good sailors should be able to sail anything and make it look OK Graeme, a 470 helmed by a 95kg 6ft Finn sailor would be last every time, at a proper event, just like Hannah Mills would be in a Finn. Squaddie male 470 helms are told they must be under 60kg. Any sensible single trap boat will get to the same. [QUOTE=iGRF] the question should be, what would, by being presented to the world at large, be better to promote the sport to a wide and gender equal audience.