Right... yes... look at the Star class... ISAF loves em... IOC takes a look at 55 + year old "athletes" and asks... Is it a sport???
Not to worry.... we then throw up for public enjoyment... Women's Match Racing.... ... again... Old salty ladies wiggling the stick for god and country.... (quick... name a sailor and ask... do you care to watch them compete in match racing?)
ISAF shot themselves in their brainless head the last time.... IOC will simply put sailing out of it's misery... and so... without IOC funding... ISAF will go away.
ISAF has one last shot at getting this right....
So assuming the best... Why does catamaran racing need an Olympic focus?
Fact of the matter... the America's Cup and various Ocean Races will dominate the public debate for the next several years. The notion that we required Olympics to challenge the young sailors is not so compelling anymore.
