ISAF agree to mixed sailing as an Olympic sport discipline

12:11 PM Sat 7 May 2011 GMT

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The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) has confirmed mixed sailing is an Olympic sport discipline at 2011 ISAF Mid-Year Meeting in St Petersburg, Russia. The victory at the Tornado World Sailing Championship in a mixed team is just 9 months ago and now our sport is an Olympic discipline. In record time we made it from a vision to an Olympic sport. Never in the history of sports, had such a thing happened so fast. We can hardly believe it and we love it. Even in winter sports three of the six new Olympic disciplines are a mixed sport. If most ...

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by Roland and Nahid Gaebler