| # | Name | Comments |
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| 451 | Mark Lincoln | Disgraceful Decision |
| 452 | Anonymous | |
| 453 | Cornelia Salzmann | |
| 454 | egbert hovenkamp | |
| 455 | Anonymous | I support a men & womens multihull (eg tornado or F18) and also a men & womens high performance mono (eg foiling moth, 49er) being included at the Olympics. |
| 456 | John Hollands | A multi hull sailor that aspires to sail in an Olympics will now never see their dream come true. A dedicated 470, Star or Finn sailor could change classes and still realize their dream. This is a very narrow minded decision and is not in the best interests of the sport of sailing. |
| 457 | Chris Needham | If any type of boat is representative of the broardest demographic, catamarans must be it. Women, Men, Girls and Boys, Big and Small race these boats in many sailing clubs around the world on an equal footing. They are the only type of boat I know of that can be raced successfully by mixed crews. What is more that for such high performance, exciting craft they are among the cheapest to maintain. I for many years sailed monohulls with great enjoyment, I am unlikely to return until I feel that cruising in something over 10m and with a lump of lead under me in a keel - not a suitable olympic event. |
| 458 | j pierce | i am retired and 75 years old and can now only sail a flying fifteen as a catamaran is too energetic for me, however i dont see any of the youth of my club wanting to join me in slow mono hulls with lots of weight underneath.
speed is exciting to the young, it requires skill and athleticism, not to be found in most of the monohulls selected |
| 459 | Anonymous | |
| 460 | Anonymous | unglaublich |
| 461 | Graham G Baxter | This is an outrageous and retrogressive decision. It must be reversed immediately. |
| 462 | Thanos Vakalopoulos | |
| 463 | Vincent Hengst | Tornado sailing should be olympic. |
| 464 | Anonymous | I sail a monohull. I beleive sailing any different class of boat requires different skills and abilities. Why would you take the fastest and most extreme class out of the games when I thought the idea was to make these events media freindly. |
| 465 | Gunter WIHL | Tornado is the only real high-technical discipline in Olympic sailing. The decision to cancel this is not acceptable and shows only political but no sportive interests. |
| 466 | Javier Padrón Torrent | It is hard begin to prepare an Olympic campaign in 2004 for 2012 and that in the 2007 ISAF says to you that it is going to stop being Olympic |
| 467 | Antony Edwards | |
| 468 | Andy Kelley | The decision to remove multihulls from the olympics is astounding and fundamentally wrong. |
| 469 | Michael Lynn | Gentlemen,
with all due respect I object to the ISAF Council´s decision to remove the Tornado class from the 2012 Olympic schedule. Please bear in mind that in the age of media-driven sport event, sailing can only survive by providing worldwide audiences with spectacular footage. Removing one of the most spectacular classes from the schedule is therefore a move in the wrong direction!
Respctfully
Michael Lynn |
| 470 | Ben Brooks | I have sailed Hobie 16s and am now sailing A class catamarans. I have ambitions for nationals and the worlds and would one day love to compete in the olympics in a Tornado or any mulithull for that matter. However this recent decision ISAF made has crushed my dreams and the dreams of any other catamaran sailor. You have 10 monos and no cats in the olympics, give us a break and let us have a chance. |
| 471 | Tony Drake | |
| 472 | Rafael Ojuez | Hard to understand the decision when there are so much talented multihull sailors in the country. this decision will weak the sport in GB. |
| 473 | Gavin Colby | |
| 474 | James Stewart | The fastest and most exciting class is removed when ISAF is doing everything to pander to TV and media demands. Very strange.
Now a whole section of the sailboat racing community has been disenfranchised.
The sooner ISAF dissappears up its own self-important butt the better |
| 475 | donna evans | this appears to have no substantial reasoning behind it? |
| 476 | Charles Bueche | |
| 477 | Anonymous | |
| 478 | kevin stittle | |
| 479 | Damian Boreham | |
| 480 | Manfred Schönleitner | |
| 481 | Christian Schröder | Young ambitious and talented sailors should also see a future in 2-hulls sailing.
Not only monos are the "sailing world" |
| 482 | Anonymous | |
| 483 | Rombaut Simon | |
| 484 | Phil Morrison | |
| 485 | Dave Cooper | I can not see how the ISAF president can say the 10 mono hulls selected represent the diversity of our sport. As a dinghy and keelboat sailor I still feel a catamaran should be included. Apart from the 49er an boards the rest of those selected are outdated technology and of no media interest |
| 486 | herbert Dercksen | |
| 487 | NOVÁK, Roland | |
| 488 | Ian loffhagen | So the old men in blazers have let politics and the age old prejudice against multihulls triumph over sense once again. This decision is outrageous and shows how out of touch ISAF is. We should be making the sport more attractive to young people by including exciting sailing. Multihulls, and skiffs must be included and if they had any vision they would be including the foiling Moth and Kite sailing.
Think again or there will be no sailing in the olympics. |
| 489 | Martin Trachsel | |
| 490 | Pásztor Csaba | |
| 491 | Javier Ledo Angulo | I would like the multihulls to be in the olimpics.
I also think that a multihull is faster, and much more exciting that any monohull. |
| 492 | Kyle Amadio | This decision is completely unbalanced, isn't 9 classes enough for monohulls? Politics is important part of life but this is competely unreasonable. It may have been a fair critisim to suggest the Tornado is due for a review, perhaps the F18 would be a better choice, but to remove the most exciting part of the sailing programme from the Olympics is just really the beginning of the end. There is little or no media coverage for sailing and this decision removes any real opportunity that may have existed. |
| 493 | Anonymous | |
| 494 | Bob Carter | This is terrible. It seems that ISAF are trying to make the Olympic Sailing less media friendly and more boring for the non informed spectator to watch. The multihull is fast and exciting and with (windy) Weymouth being the selected venu it would have been a great spectacle. The Star is unlikey to have the same interest or following. Additionally why select womens match racing? Who does it? Who will watch it - apart from a few sailing anoraks? A womens skiff would have much greater media appeal and it would also have the benefit of bringing the Olympic Sailing Programme up to date. A skiff would be cheaper and surely it is the way to encourage the worlds sailing to go? Is there any chance that these unfortunate decisions can be reversed? |
| 495 | bart van der Kolk | Especially the multihull competition is interesting to watch for non-sailers, because of it's speed. This should be used as a campaign to convince people to go sailing. |
| 496 | Edward Lee-Elliott | This appalling mistake must be rectified and all those resposible be removed from the committee with immediate effect. |
| 497 | Martin | catamaran class has a great history |
| 498 | Adam May | |
| 499 | Simon Balázs | |
| 500 | joanna | |