(FYI half of this is in humor)

This Olympic Selection looks like what I have seen 3 or 4 times in the last 12 years. The issue is not monohull vs multihull, the issue is rich countries and the rest of the world. It kinda goes like this:


Olympic Committee: Sailing requires an expensive facility and nobody watches it on TV. We have a marketing report that says people might watch skiffs.

Rich Countries: Sailing is Olympic tradition and a lot of our citizens participate.

Poor countries: I am not sure we have even seen half the boats you are talking about. We have nobody that can compete and we can't afford to send anyone anyway. We want all sailing events to be simple one design and we want the boats to be supplied. That way we can send at least one person.

South America: Keel Boats!, Keel Boats! (They have World Champions)

Compromise: A core of simple supplied boast plus specialties.

The Tornado is a specialty boat. We can get the Tornado continued but we will have to fight. Write your representative and let them know how you feel. This especially true outside of the the US and Europe. Your representative may not have a position and they have an equal voice in this matter.