2016 Olympics: ISAF Council votes on Events for Rio de Janeiro



10:00 AM Sat 7 May 2011 GMT
'The 49er is in the hot seat for the 2016 Olympics' &copy Richard Langdon/Skandia Team GBR Click Here to view large photo
The International Sailing Federation Council has started the Final Day of its Mid-Year Meeting in St Petersburg, Russia. While temperatures outside the venue, the salubriously named Winter Garden and Ballroom of the Hotel Astoria, was a modest 13 degrees, inside the temperatures and stress levels were a lot higher. After the ISAF's Events Committee had pitched a schedule of Events for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil which dropped both Keelboat events, the ISAF's Executive Committee's retort was to reject that slate and instead support one that did have both Keelboats in it, but amazingly dropped both the ...


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by Richard Gladwell





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