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Telltale 
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 Topic: Olympic Windsurfing RestoredPosted: 10 Nov 12 at 8:52pm |
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It's back! Having seen the kitesurfing race video one can only feel a sense of relief, or am I just an old fuddy duddy out of touch?
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Bootscooter
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Posted: 10 Nov 12 at 8:59pm |
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Well I think it's great news - not necessarily because of a dislike of Kitesurfing, but because of the way the decision was made, seemingly overnight with little or no consultation, to eject a whole sport.
I'm sure thee will be a place in the Olympics for Kitesurfing in the future, but this should only be in addition to the current catagories, IMHO.
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E.J.
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Posted: 10 Nov 12 at 9:01pm |
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'The Spanish Sailing Federation has since acknowledged that its representative voted for kiteboarding by mistake'.
Sound like an easy mistake to make?!
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timeintheboat
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Posted: 10 Nov 12 at 9:02pm |
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Some sense in what has been a bonkers week.
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Like some other things - sailing is more enjoyable when you do it with someone else
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pondmonkey
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Posted: 12 Nov 12 at 9:36am |
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actually the sensible decision would be to chuck both out and keep the Elliot match racing and add a men's match racer or retain the star based on a straight demographic vote. There are far more people around the world who race on keelboats than on kites and windsurfers combined.
Windsurfing and kitesurfing- neither are truly represented by ISAF 'board sailing', with or without the mast, raced on grotesquely large boards that no one would want to actually choose for fun. However I don't deny that there could be an argument for slalom and/or freestyle kite and windsurfing, just not under ISAF jurisdiction and the restrictions implied by the geography of the sailing regatta. However the IKA are riding coat tails rather than speaking with the IOC directly and I don't think there's even a credible windsurfing organisation out there who could engage with the IOC.
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iGRF
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Posted: 12 Nov 12 at 10:25am |
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Well news buzzing the inter web this morning is of the IOC not being happy at all with ISAF for reversing their decision, with the reminder that sailing is boring and the idea was to jazz up the format to make it more watchable, so they can rake in more TV bucks.
So maybe they'll have to chuck those Finnboys out after all to make way for a kite medal. |
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pondmonkey
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Posted: 12 Nov 12 at 10:34am |
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I can't see ex-Finn medalist and current president of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, condoning that type of talk... hey Rodney?
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JimC
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Posted: 12 Nov 12 at 10:39am |
The thought that the notably bureaucratic IOC mioght have any opinion at all this early in the game is a pretty amusing one, isn't it:-) What's the betting this is people spreading the stories they want to hear? |
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iGRF
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Posted: 12 Nov 12 at 10:56am |
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Oh dear, then it probably doesn't bode well for the 470 then does it, one of them will have to go, it'll either be that or the entire circus gets ditched, the bearded one isn't going to be happy with things as they stand and you saw what happened after he lost his rail bid.
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getafix
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Posted: 12 Nov 12 at 10:58am |
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ISAF 'restores' Olympic windsurfing over kitesurfing..... Ha Ha Ha, Ha Ha Ha....
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