What needs to be clearly understood is that this vote not only removed catamarans from the Olympics, it put sailing in the position of being comnpletely removed as well. This fight that we are in and are asking everyone's help with is now about keeping sailing itself in the Olympics. We are in this position because we have not stood up for ourselves, the MNA's have voted for very selfish reasons and the ISAF has accepted that vote. You had better believe that the IOC is now looking very closely at sailing and saying to itself, WOW, we told them the changes that needed to be made and what did they do? They ignored all of our findings and reccommendations, so they have not lived up to the responsibilities required of a sport to maintain Olympic Status. Gee, should we keep them here? or is it time to remove a very costly, non-telegenic sport from the games? If you look at the costs and infrastructure that is required, as well as how sailing defines the possible locations, it makes sense to drop us if we are not helping by providing exciting, television ready, accessable and vibrant sports. If I were the IOC, I would use this opportunity that the ISAF and voting MNA's have given for the complete removal of sailing from the games after 2012.