>If a young student has to choose between a $5.000 dinghy and a $40.000 Tornado to get involoved in racing, the choice is easily made. And how many people do sail a Tornado for fun? What's the percentage of Tornado boats compared to all multihulls ?<

The keelboat, the "Star" costs more than a Tornado. What's the percentage in Stars?

How many women in the USA actively "match race" a keel boat?

It seems redundant to have a Laser and Finn in the Olympics.
I'm sure Robert Schiedt could win in both. (8 time Laser World Champion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scheidt)
Ben Ainslie could not beat Schiedt in Laser Class so went over to Finn, and became WC.

Clearly, ISAF has no vision of the future of performance sailing.