You'd think that the heavy dinghy would be vulnerable, but it isn't... widespread international support. It was one of the five events that were considered fore-gone conclusions - even the more-forward-thinking Events Committee included it in their final recommendation to the Council. In the Sail-Juice Blog voting, I picked the Finn to be dropped, too. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I've already been in e-mail contact with the senior editor of SAIL. We'll see if we can't get some additional perspective included...