Mary,

I like to put it this way: excluding multihulls from the Olympics would be like excluding the fastest formulae from car races. Who would exclude Formula One or Formula Indy from a hipotetic Olympic Car Competition? The numbers favour Golfs, Beetles, whatever, but are numbers a valid criteria for Olympic equipment?

Numbers are being considered only because sailing needs more media atention and ISAF wants to be "politically correct".

What boats are our F1 or Indy equivalent?
IACC, ORMA Open 60 tris, VOR 70, Open 60 monos, Megayachts?

The reason why criterias are never clear in the choice of equipment is that a lot (most?) high quality/professional racing in sailing is way too expensive to enter the Olympic games. The current sailing equipment are mere substitutes. Some are cool, some are fast, some are popular, but none is equivalent to a "F1" or "Indy".

I say: take all classes out and race only ORMA open 60 tris in the Olympics.