Which boat as women's skiff?

I think it looks quite good. Rig looks pretty powerful for the size of the boat.

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The track events have some differences between men and women in middle distance. Field have different weights for "throwing" events between genders. On the cycling track, 2012 will be the first Olympics with the same events for men and women. It'll be the first with female boxing (and then rather less events). There's a lot less canoeing events for women. In the football, there's 12 spots for women's teams, which can be full national sides, whilst the men have 16 spots for under 23 sides (with up to 3 overage players).

Originally posted by RS400atC Surely in other sports, they take an event which already exists, like say women's doubels rowing, and give it olympic status, rather than creating a new event that no women are previously participating in?

Originally posted by Foiling_Toff Originally posted by s.a.l.t.y This could be an obvious answer, but could we not just throw some women in a 49er and tell them to get on with it? Im suprised that the idea of a 'womens skiff' has not been flagged up as discriminatory against women, what with that sexual equality and stuff like that. There are plenty of female sailors out there that would be more than capable of handling a 49er, some probably more so than many of the men out there that have decided that women should be sailing a 'lesser' boat, so why not just give them indoors one aswell? While I agree to an extent, unfortunately it's not realistic as a lot of woman just wouldn't be heavy enough for it.