I agree with you Berny,But sailing is only television worthy if there's action,thrills and spills.The joe average punter won't watch sailing unless it has the above,i know i work with a group of shift workers and they always tell me if they watch it and there's action BUT if there's no action they always comment on how boring it looks.So while ever that theory is around television coverage will be limited.Just ask people that have tried to organise television coverage of events.
And lets face facts that while ever there is money available for the winners of medals in olympics people will always stack the decks do deals or cheat (if they can get away with it)
The removal of the tornado's from the olympics hasn't changed my sailing from week to week as i know that my sailing ability wouldn't even fill the pinky finger on the top guys & gals
These are just my thoughts Richard