On one hand I tend to agree with you Darryl. However, I think pulling back sailing from such a mainstream event could be bad overall for the exposure of the sport. Here in the states, sailing is not terribly popular to begin with so I'm not surprised when it gets minimal coverage. I do, however, tune into the BBC occasionally to hear about something about sailing coming out of Britain. Britain did quite well at the last Olympics in sailing and I would be interested to hear what kind of exposure Olympic Sailing received there...anyway, my point is, if it gets some coverage it goes much more to the mainstream media if it's part of the formal Olympic Games. If we seclude it, it will get much less mainstream publicity....Is there really a Water Skiing Olympics? (seriously?).