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US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
If it's better value/lower-risk, why not? When we did the 4.7 & Radial Worlds in Kingston a group shipped a container of Lasers over- those doing both regattas saved charter cost twice and several of those who only did one of the events chartered their boats to people doing the other. The cost...- AnIdiot
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- Forum: Dinghy Anarchy
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US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
...and every nine months or so, someone will pipe up here that the problem is The Olympics, The Laser or The Optimist Mommys, without any appreciation that dinghy sailing in the rest of the world isn't just the same as in the USA. :-)- AnIdiot
- Post #159
- Forum: Dinghy Anarchy
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US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
It's dependent on success: if the sailors don't medal in Paris (well, Marseille :-) ) then the budget may well go down. I'm told that success at junior level doesn't predict success at elite; however, the more sailors involved in the sport the more likely you'll get someone with what it takes...- AnIdiot
- Post #143
- Forum: Dinghy Anarchy
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US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
That would assume the budget goes only on elite coaching for the "Team": far from it: note my post earlier when I said my local dinghy club acquired a rib through "Olympic funding"; the money comes from the sport funding body and goes via the RYA to support the "pathway"... so some goes to the...- AnIdiot
- Post #140
- Forum: Dinghy Anarchy
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US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
Structurally, this isn't much different to the UK, TBH; except that there's enough coaching available to mean you can be competitive, though probably not for a couple of cycles at Olympic level. Mostly, the support is coaching and being part of a successful team. You still need to pay your own...- AnIdiot
- Post #137
- Forum: Dinghy Anarchy
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US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
High end racing is a natural by-product of a lot of people having fun in boats, many of them enjoying casual racing and some of those ones wanting to get as good as they can... If the programme is focussed only on the few that want to get good, the others will naturally lose interest...- AnIdiot
- Post #135
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US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
See post #13; this is an American problem, not a international one or an "Olympic" one. Needs to be "fixed" in the US, not at the Olympics, and not by taking the Laser out. @sunseeker - maybe your local sailing scene needs cheap and easy access to the waterfront? Or maybe it needs a bunch of...- AnIdiot
- Post #129
- Forum: Dinghy Anarchy
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US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
Absolutely agree. Would add "TV appeal" to the list of conflicting demands.- AnIdiot
- Post #89
- Forum: Dinghy Anarchy
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US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
I'm not seeing the relevance of the question... but it highlights the issue in the USA: lack of interest, structure, support, strategy. Changing one of the boats (sorry, "equipment" :-) ) wouldn't fix that, as has been explained above. I'm not sure why you think it would. The attempts to put...- AnIdiot
- Post #87
- Forum: Dinghy Anarchy
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US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
I'm not disputing much of what you're saying except your conclusion. It's about the sailor, not the boat. The boat should be easy to sail badly and difficult to sail well.- AnIdiot
- Post #51
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US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
No Laser would mean no sailing events (I recognise that that's what some would like to see). As stated above, no Laser means no grassroots/developing countries can compete; out goes sailing. Cost of entry is what killed keelboats, Para sailing followed because it needed the expensive keelboat...- AnIdiot
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Hah! :-). More that if that sailors attitude is representative then it's no surprise that the team doesn't get backing for success.- AnIdiot
- Post #19
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Trickle down funding. The cash that Olympic success brings into grass-roots sailing here bought my club's new rescue rib and helped buy the land the club's built on, to the benefit of the members. There's other stuff, too, but those are both significant material contributions to the sport and...- AnIdiot
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