If a Multihull comes back.......

By "mixed" do you mean:

Originally posted by alstorer There's supposedly pressure on the remaining open/mixed events at the Olympics (equestrian events and racket sports mixed doubles I think are what remains) due to political/cultural sensitivities with countries that are perhaps a little less forward on womens rights.

Oddly I'm suddenly seeing a complete change of emphasis on that subject: there are documents in the submissions for this years ISAF November conference which seem to be saying that the IOC is now in favour of mixed doubles events after strong opposition only a couple of years ago. This seems to be a recurring theme: IOC seems to be quite happy to give the sports markedly changed (and even rather contradictory) guidelines at quite short intervals. One of the things that most confused the debate on the multihull last time was people quoting out of date IOC guidelines, and I'm beginning to get the impression that changing guidelines is business as usual for the IOC. Must make things pretty difficult for the various sports administrations, and even more for egotistic self appointed on line pundits like me: seems I need to be finding and reading dozens of new documents every year in order to be up to date and not look like an idiot by quoting last year's news...

Edited by JimC - 27 Sep 10 at 4:06pm

No idea what format they would come up with, but if Cats are going to make it into the games, they need to follow the example of the monohulls - they need something cutting edge. How about a Dart 18? Or if that is too radical, the Shearwater has been popular for just about long enough...

<irony>I Suspect</irony>

Those classes are waaaay too popular! My money is on the Jumpahead or Thai MkV!