More or less accurate. The voting was done, not to advance the interest in yachting, but rather, based on medal chances and representation within US Sailing. That said, every rep in the world more or less acted the same way.

Therein lies the problem. The whole weakness of the current system is an inadequate ISAF vision for the youth boat selection to building interest in the sport of yachting. The system of placing 'Olympic Chances' before skill, excitement and sheer athleticism guarantees that the the international governance organizations will resort to voting for equipment with which they are most familiar or have a personal interest. In doing so, the current process takes a short view of the sport in spite of the future, as well as thumbing their nose at guidance by the IOC for coming up with a more exciting event; the selections made do little to appeal to a bigger, general Olympic spectator audience.

By analogy, in Olympic Skiing they went through a similar evolution with the Snowboard, and short track skating. However, for those sports, ultimately there was recognition that the new approaches were athletic, accessible, people liked doing it, watching it, and participating in the competition. Its hard to imagine anyone (other than the participants themselves) being captivated by a keelboat dual, let alone **two** of them in the Olympics. Furthermore, given the esoteric nature of some of the selection of moribund boat classes, a suspension of disbelief will be required (by Joe Average Olympic watcher) to understand how yachting can be 'interesting or accessible'. That's why the ISAF should have re-focused on team activites, speed and athleticism, rather than 'doing a vote'- No vision.