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    Posted: 21 Jun 21 at 7:27pm
Given Oman is hosting the Youth Worlds in 2021. Maybe we should give the governing body of our sport some more ideas for more unsuitable venues. Maybe it will be an educational experience for those young female sailors to go to a country where women are routinely discriminated against and migrant workers are essentially slaves. At least in Formula 1 there is big money to be handed over and significant commercial interests to satisfy. Here was me thinking sailing was a bit cleaner than this. 
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Look on the positive side, Oman authorities allowing a prestigious sporting event to go ahead, that shows females competing on an International stage, women in Oman can see that they can do sports etc.
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North Korea next, please!
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It's a classic example of 'sportswashing' though. China is doing/has done it with the Olympics and QATAR is doing it with the World Cup. Countries with somewhat dodgy human rights records routinely use prestigious sporting events to purchase credit on the geopolitical stage and project an image of their country as modern and progressive. 
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Germany did it in 1936
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And it would have been a lot better to not give it to "us" back then...

When Germany wanted to apply for the 2024 summer Olympics with Hamburg as the main spot for the competitions (sailing would have been - again - in Kiel) the citizens in Hamburg voted against it. 50 % of all citizens entitled to vote participated, most of them were concerned that it would just have been a giant waste of tax money.  A good sign that the democracy and human rights situation improved in Germany since 1936, but it leads to limiting the choice to the "dodgy" countries of today ...
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Originally posted by 423zero

Look on the positive side, Oman authorities allowing a prestigious sporting event to go ahead, that shows females competing on an International stage, women in Oman can see that they can do sports etc.


I am sure the women of Oman will be delighted to do some me sailing between their fight for equal rights. Beyond financial ineptitude world sailing needs to have a word with itself.
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Save a lot of disputes and money, move everything to Greece, let the World build a super centre, money saved can be used to bring poorer nations into the mix.
I am not bothered about winter Olympics, stick it anywhere. (added this because someone was bound to bring it up).
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Having travelled and studied the region extensively, including broad engagement with male and female academics, thinkers, politicians and religious leaders, I genuinely believe that this sort of event/activity is a help not a hindrance to advancing equality in states such as Oman.
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The Olympics is to sport = Eurovision is to music.
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