ISAF saved from chaos by just one vote

5:21 PM Sun 8 May 2011 GMT

'Leaderless - what ISAF would have looked like today with most of the VP's on the helm' ? Ingrid Abery

Extracts from Andy Rice's latest Sailjuice expose. ' It all came down to one vote. In a tense face-off around the ISAF Council table, the 37 members voted 19:18 in favour of keeping skiffs on the Olympic sailing roster, at the expense of the keelboats.' It is alleged that the seven vice-presidents of ISAF Executive Committee had agreed to block vote in favour of the keelboats. But I've been told that Teresa Lara, the Venezuelan VP, broke ranks with her colleagues and voted in line with the recommendations of the Events Committee, ie the skiffs. If this is the case, ...

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