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New Olympic events.

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Topic: New Olympic events.
Posted By: 2547
Subject: New Olympic events.
Date Posted: 14 May 18 at 6:44pm
Kites in, 470 goes mixed and the Finn of course survives as some sort of contrive mixed team event. 

Windsurfers get new toys. 



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Posted By: furtive
Date Posted: 14 May 18 at 7:36pm
Not sure you're looking at the final list - sailing.org reports that new classes are Mixed one person dinghy, mixed two person dinghy, mixed kite.

Not sure how you fit a Finn in there (but also not clear what mixed one person means - moth of some sort??)


Posted By: 2547
Date Posted: 14 May 18 at 7:56pm
Look at the full text of submission 22. 

Mixed single hander retains the men’s equipment. New equipment for the women. Some sort of relay race one assumes. 


Posted By: 2547
Date Posted: 14 May 18 at 8:44pm
http://sailing.org/news/86947.php#.WvnsY4rTWf0" rel="nofollow - http://sailing.org/news/86947.php#.WvnsY4rTWf0



Posted By: furtive
Date Posted: 14 May 18 at 8:58pm
Amazing how unclear they manage to make it! Some more detail/speculation here... http://www.sailweb.co.uk/Olympic/30156/world-sailing-council-retain-finn" rel="nofollow - link


Posted By: 2547
Date Posted: 14 May 18 at 9:12pm
When was a lightweight woman considered as sub 70kgs. 


Posted By: fab100
Date Posted: 14 May 18 at 9:16pm
I'm probably going to get in trouble for this thought, but does a 'mixed single hander' mean there is finally an event for the ladyboys people keep referring to?

More sensible would be two-boat team racing with one male, one female, but sense does not seem to have any place in all this dumbing down. And even then, how can any boat selected accommodate both big guys or small women.

On the mixed two-hander, unless its twin trapeze or both hiking, simple physiological statistics suggest you will surely nearly always end with female helm, and a bloke on the wire. 

Seems to me that the muppets voting for all this are totally clueless. Just imagine the furore if it was decided to chuck out boxing and judo, but combine all combat sports and make them mixed tag-team. Oh, hang-on, they probably already have that on US TV

Hopefully, they've f**ked things up sufficiently that sailing falls out of the Olympics altogether. Let the kites and SUPs have it. I still believe its a force for bad, not good for the sport.


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Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 14 May 18 at 9:37pm
So I read that there would be equipment trials for the mixed singlehander.

Has the Finn bitten the dust - there’s no way that can possibly be taken seriously as a mixed event?


Posted By: salmon80
Date Posted: 15 May 18 at 2:35am
Originally posted by turnturtle

So I read that there would be equipment trials for the mixed singlehander.

Has the Finn bitten the dust - there’s no way that can possibly be taken seriously as a mixed event?


Finn will never bite the dust. It was "open" before becoming the "heavy weight dinghy"

Finn is too powerful. It will appeal to all courts that will listen, UN court of human rights, failing that it will burn down world sailing HQ and knee cap all the exec commmittee


Posted By: GG NHRC
Date Posted: 15 May 18 at 6:30am
No provision for large blokes to sail? 




Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 15 May 18 at 6:48am
What is maximum feasible weight for Laser ?


Posted By: 2547
Date Posted: 15 May 18 at 7:04am
Mixed singlehander is men in Finns and women in another class in what one assumes will be a relay race. 


Posted By: turnturtle
Date Posted: 15 May 18 at 8:00am
Originally posted by 2547

Mixed singlehander is men in Finns and women in another class in what one assumes will be a relay race. 

or combined score I guess.  It'll be interesting to see what craft WS select... I guess they could just re-use the Laser Radial entrant, giving her two medal opportunities?  


Posted By: PeterG
Date Posted: 15 May 18 at 8:08am
Mixed singlehander is men in Finns and women in another class in what one assumes will be a relay race. 

No, the WSC has consulted GRF and it will be run as a handicap race.



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