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    Posted: 01 Feb 13 at 10:49pm
Originally posted by winging it

interestingly, the javelin was modified around ten years ago as athletes were in danger of throwing it too far.....into the crowd....


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Originally posted by winging it

What might get sailing out of the games will be a) the cost of staging the already very small Olympic regatta, and b) the accessibility, or rather lack of it, of sailing for the emerging nations. 


Getting rid of that 5-ringed cancer would be the very best thing ever for sailing. At a stroke it would get rid of all the prima-donnas and social spongers and return the sport to its roots.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Feb 13 at 11:16pm
Mind you I don't reckon it will be too long before the "disabled" sprinters using blades will be able to beat the "able bodied" sprinters without - as indeed the wheelchair marathon runners can already thrash the runners...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Feb 13 at 11:20pm
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It is so typical of everything that is wrong about the sport, in a bad way, I actually feel sorry for those of you suckered in by it, but you are no better than the Bandit brigade, the Epoxy streaker in a wooden boat race. 
So pleased that the Streaker Nationals was won by a WOOD boat last year!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Feb 13 at 12:27am
To answer tick, I do like progressive design, things should become easier, faster or more accessible to those who want them, without necessarily having to devote their every waking moment to learning how to control them.
If those kids had been trying to modify their 420 because it wasn't exactly a class event, so what, it's the human condition to want to improve our lot and young minds do that. Does no one see the irony of on the one hand cracking on about the unfairness of out of class stuff with denials and counterclaims then talk of tens of thousands pounds of computer generated and high modulous chicanery going into another Olympic class?

It's bullsh*t is what it is, either a class is One Design which generally menas they are all made the same and you really can't change anything or it is something else, restricted development we used to call it and therefore 'Open' it can't be both and be fair to all.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 Feb 13 at 10:59am
All the modern boats are built this way in the class.
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