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Olympic Sailing: New multihull analysis asks hard questions of ISAF



8:12 AM Thu 4 Nov 2010 GMT
'There will be no Multihull event at the 2012 Olympic regatta in Weymouth' Richard Gladwell Click Here to view large photo
Just over a week before the start of the International Sailing Federation's Annual Meeting in Athens, Greece the vociferous UK Catamaran Racing Association has issued an analysis, which not surprisingly makes a strong case for the inclusion of a Multihull Event in the 2016 Olympic Sailing Regatta. Three years ago, at the same conference in Estoril, Portugal, the various Olympic class politicians lobbied for a retention of their nearest and dearest. The multihulls were caught unawares, and the outcome was that the Multihull Event, and the spectacular Tornado catamaran, were bumped off the Olympic bus. That decision has proved to ...


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by Richard Gladwell and UKCRA





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