While I agree with most of what you state and concur with you that the Tornado class is male dominated, there are some women in and actively campaigning Tornados. Pease Glaser is no longer active in the class, but did compete with Jay for a couple of campaigns. Right now Carolijn Brouwer/BEL is ranked 22nd in the world on Tornados. She and her crew had a great regatta at the ISAF Worlds this year in Cascais with what I believe was a secnd place finish at the end of the regatta. I would like to see either a single-handed open class or a women's class in the Olympics, but right now I am more interested in making sure that multihulls are not completely eliminated from the Olympics.