Bei den Olympischen Spielen in Athen wird es wohl keine Streicher geben. Eine
interessante Entscheidung der ISAF. Unser internationaler Präsident Darren
Dunkley-Smith schreibt dazu:
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Dear Sailors and Coaches.
With less than 10 months before the Athens Olympic Regatta, the ISAF Council
voted Saturday to remove Drop Races from the Olympic Games competition.
In an effort to make sailing more understandable to the Media and to make
winning sailors sail the last race, President Henderson had suggested to the
Annual ISAF Conference to make the last race of the regatta "UnDroppable", But
the Council after discussion decided to remove drop races entirely.
Earlier in the week the Olympic Classes Commission had suggested that 2 races
should be sailed on the last day to avoid the problem of sailors choosing not to
sail the last race... this was obviously ignored.
So the Olympic Format for 470 will be 11 Races/No Drop, this will obviously
change the Tactics of teams and place even more importance on gear and boat
preparation.
As 470 President , I think this is a somewhat clumsy way of solving the problem
and I would ask if you think we should submit to ISAF to have the single drop
race re-installed.
I await your opinions.
Cheers
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Auf den Seiten der ISAF findet man auch was dazu:
http://www.sailing.org/Article_content.asp?ArticleID=5821
und
http://www.sailing.org/Article_content.asp?ArticleID=5806
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