The IOC allowed the addition of the Star class for the 2008 games. The class was removed for the China games and I believe that they petitioned directly to the IOC for them to add 1 additional spot. I believe that you can find more on this issue somewhere online, it is pretty well documented. ISAF was supposed to have the number of events reduced to 10 for 2008, but after a large contigent of Star sailors and supporters directly petitioned, the IOC bent for these games. I do not believe that they will bend again, which probably led to the last minute change in proceedures by the US which put multi's vs not keelboats, but against the "Star Class". The Star class is strong, organized, fully supported at a world-wide level and attracts somed of the more prominent sailors to the class.

Having a run off between multi's and keelboats would probably end similarly to November's vote. To re-vote the entire slate of events. I am of the position that having dinghies representing 6 of 10 Olympic classes is where the trouble actually lies. I also feel that this could have been answered with 5 men's and 5 women's classes of which one for each gender is a double-handed multihull. With the AC now being battled on the water in 90' multihulls, maybe someone from that group will speak out. Seeing as how so far Glen Ashby and Charlie Ogletree have been spotted in Valencia this week, maybe both of them will raise the point and try to recruit some support.