Designer Greg Elliott on the eviction of the Olympic Keelboat in 2016

12:22 AM Tue 31 May 2011 GMT

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Greg Elliott, designer of the Womens Olympic Keelboat, is understandably not pleased with the decision by the International Sailing Federation to drop the Womens (and Mens) Keelboats from the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. He is even more surprised that a boat and event into which so much effort has been dropped before even sailing in the Olympics. While he has more than a few queries over what is happening within the ISAF and the direction of the sport, Elliott says his main focus is on the 2012 Olympics, in which his design will compete, and says that it will be ...

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by Richard Gladwell
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Designer Greg Elliott on the eviction of the Olympic Keelboat in 2016

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