The REAL challenges for Olympic Sailing

3:53 AM Sun 7 Nov 2010 GMT

'Laser startline Qingdao 2008' .

Right now the ISAF Olympic Commission and a group of ISAF delegates are going to sit down and decide the future of our sport as a part of the Olympic Games. The Executive Committee released a large report regarding a number of areas in which sailing has to improve to maintain its place in the Olympics, and a number of strategies to deal with these problems. The overwhelming response to this Olympic shake down has been focused around the classes sailed at the Games. This is an important issue no doubt, but in no way the most significant challenge sailing ...

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by Rob Size, 470 sailor