The future of women's sailing in the Olympics

7:11 PM Fri 13 May 2011 GMT

Women's International Match Racing Association - WIMRA Executive Director Liz Baylis discusses the current status and future hopes for women's racing and sailing events in the Olympics and hopes for the sports continued growth. The ISAF Council voted last week to remove the women's keelboat event from the Olympic slate for 2016. Obviously this is a great disappointment to us and perhaps a decision they will regret. But it is done and we must now look forward and not backwards. We have seen an incredible growth of women's match racing throughout the world over the last 10 years: - from ...

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by Liz Baylis