Tornado blown away?

LSD received this rather disturbing email last night from Tornado sailor John Ready from the UK…

Dear Live Sail Die,

Re: RYA Plans to Drop the Tornado from the 2012 Games by the back door:

Essentially the RYA has decided not to support a catamaran class at the 2012 games.

The RYA is consitutionally bound to consult its members, but has failed to do so and is arrogantly unashamed of this when asked. The petition has 550 names on it in 2 days.

Please could you open a forum thread so that your readers are aware and can then chose to sign the petition if they so wish?
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/CatamaranSubmission/index.html

Would you also please place an article on your site?

This DailySail Article sums it up quite well:

Thanks and Regards
John Ready
Tornado GBR432

Although some of you out there may not be huge fans of catamarans, this does not warrant them from being eliminated from the Olympic Games. They provide some awesome action and are fantastic to watch, and ensure that we have some variety within the sailing discipline.

Is this first step by the RYA just a nudge to other associations that the Tornado should be shunned from the Olympics? Does this also provide evidence that sailing as a whole might be scrapped from the Olympics putting truth behind those rumours?

Along the grapevine it was heard that Australia will not send a team to the 2012 Olympic Games in London if medals are not won in 2008 at Beijing.

Support the UK guys and sign the online petition, otherwise a room full of executives will kill the dreams of so many Tornado sailors across the UK.