Gladwell's Line: ISAF Events Committee falls into its Heffalump Trap

7:29 PM Wed 10 Nov 2010 GMT

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ISAF's Events Committee seems to have fallen into its own Heffalump Trap after conducting two key votes at the International Sailing Federations Annual Conference in Athens. The trap was initially set by the ISAF's own Executive Committee in the form of two submissions which prescribed two votes to be undertaken, first by the Events Committee and then by the ISAF Council. The submissions came on the back of the ISAF's Olympic Commission Reports, in May and November calling for some very substantial changes in the way the Olympic Regatta and other feeder events are run. Issues raised by the Olympic ...

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by Richard Gladwell