Windsurfing is out of the olimpic games

I'm not an expert but all this thing about windsurf out and kite in seems to have something well known in Italy.
We call here MAFIA
That is to say a lot of fake reasons and probably a lot of hidden money.
The racing kitesurfers: I still haven't seen ONE here in Italy on the beaches and lakes where I sail!

"the influence of the top of a sport is always big"

Thats exactly attitude that introduces bad feeling accross sport...

What other discipline would make such an assumption !!!

How on earth can any developments along lines of RSX help any wave sailors/slalom sailors etc...And F1 is totally self supporting financially; through sponsorship; TV rights and the benefits it brings to companies involved.
That as we all know is not the case with racing in WS. Nobody wants to watch it;the developments it brings benefits just those involved and it does not reflect anything to do with rest of sport.

The withdrawal of WS from Olympics is just part of the demise generally assocxiated with racing in WS. It will affect nobody except those racing...Precious few. (read other threads; examine board sales !!!)

I`ve been windsurfing 30 years.I sail regularly and visit many popular sailing venues throughout Europe.I have not witnessed a race or spoken to anyone that races in the past 20 years.

An unreg poster mentioned that 90% of windsurfers dont race.. Suspect its nearer 99%.. Go down to any local sailing club in UK and there will be dinghies racing every summer sunday.. There will be no windsurfers. They will be at nearest coast if and only if its over F4.The kit they will be on has nothing in common with racing kit (long boards/RSX/Formula) and virtually none of them will have ever have taken part in any sort of organised race..

Why should kit be developed purely for the use of a precious few "racers" essentially paid for by the mass majority of sailors who have no intention of ever racing ??? (Essentially the RSX ; which will simply not sell and has been a complete waste of time now.

[Darko_Z]

Most people doing sport don’t compete, at least not in Olympic format. So real nonsense is to say some sport should not be on the Olympic Games just because competition form was adapted. In this case most Olympic sports should not be on Olympics.

Darko
But loads of people already do athletics/gymnastics etc etc outside Olympics.. Few race and even fewer race Olympic class WS. The ones that do do so purely for Olympics... Folk only bought RSX in an effort to make Olympics !!!

99% of windsurfers could not care less wether its in Olympics or not... Loads of sports get by without Olympic status .Course Racing has nothing to do with windsurfing anymore... (Or perhaps windsurfing has nothing to do with course racing)

[Gyurmo]

here is some words from Mr. Neil Pryde what is his oppinion about the olympic changes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...Eg8EQ6XCc&NR=1

gyurmo

[Jean-Marc]

... and the same in french :

http://www.ouest-france.fr/sport/dma...ils_filDMA.Htm

Cheers & keep fingers crossed !

JM

[jmunkki]

The only Finnish medal so far has been the silver medal from women's RS-X, so this has brought windsurfing into the spotlight of the Finnish media & public. A Finn voted against RS-X in Rio, but there is now quite a lot of pressure to change that vote in November.

[Jean-Marc]

Great news Juri ! Glad your country won a medal in windsurfing !!!

It is such an irony and shame to note than Spain and Finland voted against RS-X in Rio whereas a top athlete woman of each of these very same countries won a medal (Gold and Silver, respectively) at the London 2012 games...

Let's hope these 2 top athletes are going to lobby hard to convince their countrymen official ISAF members to seriously reconsider their vote in November !

Cheers !

JM

[Gyurmo]

by the way would be useful to check how its possible in the 21st century mast breakages influence the olympic results. the italian and hungarian guy broke his mast in a normal usage . which other nations had material problems? any other info?

gyurmo