Who is Australia male representative for the RSX class of sailboard at the London Olympics
I see that Jessica Crisp is the woman competitor but can't find a men's competitor
www.olympics.com.au/sports/sailing/athletes/page/1
It would seems the last Australia male to compete in a Olympic windsurf event was Lars Kleppich in 2004
We've qualified a men's rep in both 2008 and 2012, but it remains to be seen whether they will actually send an athlete or not. Luke Baillie is in the box seat I would think if they do ....
Here is a link i found for selected team members.
www.olympics.com.au/athlete-search
I think the link you have their Ian may be for atheletes from all olympics?!
because arthur tunstall says if they're not going to win gold they can't bloody go 
I think you'll find it's because Jessica has fulfilled the requirements of Yachting Australia by achieving a high performance (including wins) in ISAF ranked regattas. The criteria were published long ago.
No disrespect to Luke, but he hasn't been getting the same sort of finishes, and 5th at the last Olympics wasn't exactly a bad result from Jess!
Whatever you may think of the fact that the YA and Australian Olympic Commission want to save bucks by not sending athletes who have not achieved the required finishes, they have been applying it for years. In 1988 and 1992 we didn't send a men's 470 crew because although we had trials, no one achieved the required performance at overseas regattas.
I don't like the policy, but sending someone to the Games apparently does cost big $$ that they want to spend elsewhere, if there is no chance of a good finish. And given that we went from not competing in 470s in '88 and '92 to winning Gold two Games later, the old line "how do you expect to get better if you don't send sailors" was exposed as complete rubbish....pity 'cause I believed it too!
PS my recollection is that no male RSX sailor achieved the required standard last Games. At the 2008 Worlds Steve was 48th and Michael Lancey in the 60s, but I thought Michael may have out-scored Steve in other regattas??????
The fact that a sailor of Steve's brilliance was that far down does seem to underline that the FW sailors weren't going to walk away with the RSX as some fanbois claimed!
Yes Jess qualified by winning last years World Cup event in Kiel. And an amazing effort it was too!
Thanx Chris 249
There's obviously more politics in Olympic Sailing than I realized
Could you please direct me to the criteria for actually going to the Olympics
I found this websitehttp://worldwindsurfingchampionships2012.rsxclass.com/entries.jsp?competition_id=WC2012_001&sub_competition_id=WC2012_002
And according to it 3 Aussie males qualifed for the Olympic but it seems they have not reached the criteria required by the AOC
If someone wants to compete at the Olympics why can't they just stump up their own cash and compete? It annoys me that taxpayer money goes towards paying for someone's jolly jaunt and partying around the world. Plenty of more important things around that the money could be spent on and if there aren't it would do Australian taxpayers a lot of good to pay less tax.
Can I just clarify this: we can send a mens competitor in the RSX but we are not going to?
or, is a mens competitor still to be decided/selected?
What has the Old One Design Windsurfer and windsurfing in the Olympics Have in common
All the Aust windsurfing Reps in the Olympics Learnt to Windsurf and race on One design Equipment
Skandia Sail for Gold starts today in Weymouth, we have to sailors competing. Jessica Crisp who placed second in the Delta LLoyd. Well done looking very competitive for the Olympics.
Luke Baille last four placings 44th in Perth, 58th in Cadiz, 26th in France and 24th in Holland. His results are steadily improving. Australia has qualified for the Olympics in Mens RSX we should be sending a rep. I will send an email to YA asking why we aren't sending a rep, cant be the cost as I,m sure the CEO of YA plus hangers on will be attending the Olympics in first class 5 star eat at restaurants 3 times a day style. Perhaps if they forgo a first class ticket to London the money can be used to fund an Athlete who has been training and campaigning for years.
I agree with with cammd. Are we throwing away a spot which we have qualified for and a chance to fly the Australian flag on a sail.
We must be a poor country when we can't afford to send the best and send a message to all, that there is a chance to represent your country.
This is the only Olympic sailing class where we are not prepared to send a rep.
Yachting Australia really need to take a good look at themselves and ask did they really put as much help as they could to the RS:X class and the sport of sailboarding.
If they put the same effort in for kites they will be in the same position in 4 years time.
Why would anyone want to go down that road again.
YA's constitution Rule 2.1 "To promote and administer the sport of yachting in all it's branches". 
Who's in ? for France it's the world champion Bontemps, and just look at his training partner in Weymouth :
somewhat relevant news article i just read..
www.news.com.au/national/one-final-hurdle-shes-qualified-for-the-games-but-australia-doesnt-want-her/news-story/be8c52b52b917a54589ccfb683dc47d9
seems like a lot of public support to get athletes who qualify to the games... wonder why there isn't an article about luke.
Maybe Luke should represent England at the Olympics. After all, if they could send Eddie the Eagle to the winter Olympics when he had NO hope of medalling why wouldn't they send Luke? (BTW, I'm not insinuating Luke might not medal) Or maybe he could compete for Equatorial Guinea and Eric the Eel could be his training partner.......
John I reckon you have it spot on mate. There is no balance with selection criteria and unfortunately the Olympics have fast become a joke.
word is because kiting has taken over for RIO, theres no need to send them this year an no need to keep funding RSX training.
kinda sad, I'm and kiter and windsurfer.... Kite course racing is ****.
