Very thorough report worth the read.

terminal said...

If they had made some of those points at the appropriate time there might not have been a vote in favour of kitesurfing.

When the vote was taken the delegates were thinking about the pretty kitesurfer girl and wondering what they going to have for lunch.

windsufering said...

would it be easy just to ask the bic techno kids what they want as they seem to be the feeder class for kite racing

Lots of techno class kids going to kiting is there???

pretty sure thats not going to get Windsurfing back into the Olympics and it also puts a bad light on the current Olymics Sailing program.

I sincerely hope this is the start of a solution for the RSX class. Did anyone else notice, however, the poor or non-existent punctuation and non-sentences in this document? I hope they sprung for the cost of a professional proof-reader for their submission to the high court. If I had turned in a document like this at work I would have been asked to do it again.

That briefing document is a waste of time. It looks like windsurfing stamping it's feet and screaming "It's not fair!!!!"

All it says is "Windsurfing is great!" with lots of examples. We already know that. That is irrelevant.

If they're going to court then they have to prove that ISAF did something wrong in their voting. Either not following procedure or corruption or doing something they don't have the power to. ie. They did something illegal.

The real solution for windsurfing is to lobby all the voting members of the ISAF and ensure they have sufficient votes to vote someone else out, it doesn't matter who.

Unfortunately that's how windsurfing got voted out in the first place. From my reading the "boat" classes all voted together. They didn't give a fluck what happened to windsurfing as long the boats stayed in.

elmo said...

Neil Pryde's view of the olympics
http://boards.mpora.com/features/rsx-olympic-windsurfing-neil-prydes-view.html

Scarey numbers when you read about the cost of the equipment supplied for the olympics.

Some exceprts from the article above:

"With the law suit, they came to us to ask for funds and we refused. With a business in kitesurfing too, to be honest it made no sense for me to spend company money doing this. But as I said, from a very personal view I am definitely supporting windsurfing."

Legal Action

"The legal action is a judicial review of the procedure, it basically calls into question whether ISAF have followed all the necessary protocol and procedures in reaching this decision. This is what the judge in the court is going to be asked to determine, it's not to say that it's a good decision or a bad decision, it's whether the decision was taken correctly. I think the decision to take the judicial review was correct as at least the truth will come out. It's not costing the class anything, the lawyer is handling this on a no win, no fee basis which I think gives you some idea of how confident the lawyers are."