New Olympic events.

Originally posted by Old Timer So less and less dinghies in the games as keelboats and kites take medals away

A keelboat with a kite would be a big improvement on the Star.

In contrast, there were over 200 470 sailors at the worlds. Now the 200 sailors will have to compete for the same number of medals as the 11 kiters. And since we've known for years that World Sailing wanted kiting in the Games, it's not that the tiny numbers in kitefoiling are due to the fact that it's not Olympic - it's just by far the smallest part of our entire sport.

Kitefoiling is as much a part of Olympic sailing as Unicycle High Jumping (which got more women to its world titles) is a part of Olympic cycling. 

The Youtube generation doesn't seem to always have an attention span issue. There's an interesting conflict between the fact that people blame youngsters for having short attention spans, and also blame them for spending hours on end playing games. Around the same time the America's Cup was trying to get young fans with 20 minute races, one the top-rated games in what I'm told is the world's richest computer game comp, which has something like $38 mill of prizes effectively donated by fans buying merchandise, ran for about 100 minutes. Other pro games have run up to 200 minutes. So millions of the Youtube generation love watching games that go for longer than a football match.

Yep, kite racing is a joke because the fleet is tiny. But how can we say that we can't have kiting because so few people do it, and then also say we can't have yacht racing when so many people do it?