2024 Olympics - Windsurfing out again

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2024 Olympics - Windsurfing out again

https://www.sailingillustrated.com/single-post/2017/12/11/Olympics-World-Sailings-radical-plan-to-overhaul-2024-eventsclasses

Yet the Finn (the equivalent of a basketball competition for short guys) is still in. And to save money, they are proposing an offshore class with an overnight race. (Okay, I'm making the "saving money" part up.) Oh boy, the TV viewers are going to eat that up since they hardly have the attention span to watch the 1500 m. track events.

International sports organizations - always looking out for the little guy. I need to add a puking emoji to the smilies list.

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Re: 2024 Olympics - Windsurfing out again

Don't worry. You can borrow Gene's laser and enter it.

What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.

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Re: 2024 Olympics - Windsurfing out again
Randy wrote:

Don't worry. You can borrow Gene's laser and enter it.

First, I'm about 30 lbs too light for a Laser. Second, I was always slow as hell in a Laser. I could never get it to go upwind fast in light air and, in heavy air, I'd just get bombed. I'm surprised I never got a letter from the Laser Class suggesting I try some other sport and quit embarrassing myself.

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