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...
Very little. Maybe a minute or so every 6 hrs as part of the (almost) 24x7 coverage; perhaps totallying 5 minutes per day at max. Medal's might just make the late news. No "sailing gold frenzy for the GB team in Athens etc TV special".
Not good.
