Gladwell's Line: For whom the Olympic Bell Tolls? Part 2

10:53 AM Wed 4 May 2011 GMT

'The AC18 - maybe too extreme for the Olympics - but certainly an option that could be tested in an Evaluation Trial'

In this second part of his commentary piece, Sail-World's NZ Editor, Richard Gladwell, looks at what he thinks the International Sailing Federation should be selecting as the Events for the 2016 Sailing Olympics What does the ISAF have to do? First, think about what is to be done - which is to select a slate of 10 Olympic Events. Ignore the classes that are already associated with those Events - unless there have been recent Evaluation Trials - in which case pencil those in under the Equipment column. But do look at class options and how those options could work ...

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by Richard Gladwell