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    Posted: 13 Jun 14 at 10:38pm
No..... it's not to do with the boats at all.

It's the sailing course that's the problem.

Just one thing will revive TV viewer numbers for competitive sailing events at Olympic competition (.... if we are not contemplating Olympic foiling AC 72s here)... and that's short track sailing, or short course racing, or however you want to describe it.

We need a new race course which, just like short track skating, and parallel snowboarding, and BMX cycling, allows the competitors to exhibit athleticism and guile and tactics, and involves triumphs and complete disasters, but takes no more than 10 minutes to complete.
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so short course match racing in Lasers/D-Zeros
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Maybe if we did it in oversized wetsuits filled with custard it would be great for TV.

If we have to bugger about with the sport so much that it's not really representative of the sport anymore, is it really worth it? Are we trying to create a spectacle rather than create worthy champions?
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Maybe match racing but fleet racing prob better, with 4 or max 6 boats (.... just like short track, or BMX).

You need action and controversy, and the equivalent of people falling over!

(....but re the boats, the D-One looks good to me!)
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Originally posted by ChrisI



You need action and controversy, and the equivalent of people falling over!


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Originally posted by Rupert

Italy not part of the commonwealth, so D one not allowed!

D one isn't made in Italy!
the same, but different...

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Originally posted by ChrisI

No..... it's not to do with the boats at all.

It's the sailing course that's the problem.

Just one thing will revive TV viewer numbers for competitive sailing events at Olympic competition (.... if we are not contemplating Olympic foiling AC 72s here)... and that's short track sailing, or short course racing, or however you want to describe it.

We need a new race course which, just like short track skating, and parallel snowboarding, and BMX cycling, allows the competitors to exhibit athleticism and guile and tactics, and involves triumphs and complete disasters, but takes no more than 10 minutes to complete.

This was why they moved from triangle sausage to trapezoid with reaching finishes. Didn't work though, because Joe Public still doesn't get those dull legs where they all go of at tangents to each other....
the same, but different...

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Downwind slalom (like the windsurfers sometimes do) is probably the only racing Joe Public would easily 'get'.

I still maintain that the key is to invest in decent commentators rather than mess about with formats. At the last Olympics Simon Bornhoft was excellent at explaining what was going on in the windsurfing. My non sailing mates followed it, and enjoyed it, far better than the dinghy races.
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The worst thing about Sailing at the Olympics is this guy!

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Originally posted by winging it

Originally posted by Rupert

Italy not part of the commonwealth, so D one not allowed!

D one isn't made in Italy!


If we are going by where the boats are built, not by where their roots/designers are, then we have an even bigger problem sorting things out. Only Poland and somewhere in the far east for many...

The DZero would be out, which would be a shame.
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