There is now a serious risk that Sailing could be dropped from the Olympics in the new era of competition between sports for limited slots. The ISAF Annual Conference in Athens between 5th and 13th November is a good opportunity to improve Sailing's chances by introducing more high-performance events including multi-hulls once more for 2016.
This is on its agenda because the Executive proposes that the decision be brought forward to this year and the Events Committee recommends that the Olympic Regatta includes a Mixed Multihull Event - a solution that we first suggested in our 2008 Report.
However it also has many 5x2 submissions for one Event each for Men and one for Women in five distinct disciplines - One Person Dinghy, Two Person Dinghy. Keelboat, Multihull and Windsurfer.
These maximise telegenic high-performance boats and therefore TV revenues, which may prove to be the decisive factor. They are also the most logical and comprehensible for non-sailors.
