New Olympic events.

"The fact remains that the Mixed One-Person Dinghy event is a complete nonsense in practice, and is too much of a crapshoot to attract serious Olympic campaigns." · Originally posted by davidyacht

Some good analysis here: https://www.sail-world.com/news/205315/Top-skippers-speak-out-in-vain-on-2024-options
"The fact remains that the Mixed One-Person Dinghy event is a complete nonsense in practice, and is too much of a crapshoot to attract serious Olympic campaigns."

From the sounds of things it does seem the Finns shoehorned themselves in there, to save the classes Olympic spot, without much thought of what a 'crapshoot' the event would be. Don't get me wrong, I like the finn, but it seems they voted/lobbied for retaining the finn in the olympics at all costs, rather than retaining a specific event for heavyweight males. 

Interesting from Ian Walker in the comments:
"isn't one problem that the class associations have too much power and can influence the voting for their own benefit rather than the bigger picture or what is best for sailing and sailors as a whole in the long run? ... if we do not come up with a viable solution to what mixed singlehanded means I fear Council may have just voted for 9 medals instead of 10." 

Edited by mozzy - 18 May 18 at 2:12pm