2016 Olympics: Sailors of the World - Hang your heads and weep!

10:40 PM Fri 6 May 2011 GMT

'The 49er, or Mens HP Skiff event will be ditched from the 2016 Olympics if the ISAF Exec Com has its way' Richard Langdon &copy Click Here to view large photo

The latest news out of the 2011 Mid-Year Meeting of the International Sailing Federation in St Petersburg, Russia is that the Executive Committee has met and decided not to support the recommendation of the Events Committee made yesterday. The decision called for both Keelboat classes to be dropped, and instead for a second two handed dinghy event, for Men and Women, sailed in the 470 class, to be inserted into the ten event card for the 2016 Olympic Regatta in Rio de Janeiro. Instead the Executive Committee, which consists of the top echelon of the ISAF - the President, Presidents ...

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by Richard Gladwell