(Still) No Multihulls for the Olympics

May 11th, 2008

Reports from the ISAF Council Meeting in Qingdao, China, indicate that the International Sailing Federation has not changed its earlier stance over the exclusion of the Multihull events from the 2012 Olympics.

The reports we have are of the chain of events is as follows:

Thursday PM - the events committee has not reafirmed the Council decision from November therefore asking the Council to relook at their decision and possibly get the multihull back in for 2012.

On Saturday the vote to determine the ISAF November Olympic debate started by the ISAF President stating that he affirmed the decision from the November meeting. He then handed the meeting over to ISAF Vice President David Kellett to discuss the submission.

Chris Atkins from RYA (UK) opened the debate by promoting the multihull as a discipline that can increase sailing world wide

Bjorn Unger from the Events Committee said the Events Committee also did not support the November decision.