Gladwell's Line: Olympic Decision - will ISAF get caught by a Yorker?

12:29 PM Tue 19 Oct 2010 GMT

'Tornado Class President, Carolijn Brouwer and Seb Grodefroid (BEL) training for the 2008 World Championships.' Richard Gladwell Click Here to view large photo

In just over a couple of weeks the International Sailing Federation's Council will have to make a decision as to whether they have the courage to make the biggest changes ever proposed in the Olympic side of the sport; or, will they compromise and try to almost please almost everybody. On the back of one of the more misguided and certainly most contentious decisions the ISAF Council have made - to drop the Multihull event from the 2012 Olympic Sailing Regatta - the ISAF formed an Olympic Commission which looked at the whole Olympic sailing event. Maybe it is an ...

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by Richard Gladwell