Mixed is what we have to live with for the next few years so stop whinging, for those of us with Olympic aspirations it just means we've got to find a chick crew/helm.

For me that means a girl as i'm only 55kgs. In my eyes there are plenty of suitable female crews, 420/29er crews could all quite easily move over for people like me just coming out of youth sailing. The Girls are probably less physicaly strong but I think in a well sailed boat this makes little difference, the crew going to the Youth worlds for GBR have a female crew and she is as able as any of the male crews (she deffinatley beat me in a strenght test!)