ISAF finishes voting on mixed multihulls in the Summer Olympics

6:29 PM Thu 5 May 2011 GMT

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The ISAF Events Committee just finished the voting procedure at the midyear conference in St. Petersburg and there was no discussion for the comeback of the Multihull. There was also a little Chance with the Submissions from the Netherlands to get two Multihulls (Women + Men) in with the 5:5 slide. But finally the biggest group with same submissions went trough. The Keelboats (Star class and Women Match racing) are complete out. It seem the financial crisis and less money in the MNAs make it impossible to finance Olympic Keelboat sailing. Also Kite boarding went out early in the voting ...

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by Roland and Nahid Gaebler