Admiral Hornblower
Super Anarchist
Who's campaigning in the ILCA 7 for the US?
US ILCA 7 representative for Paris 2024
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Currently in the US Sailing website, it lists Charlotte Rose for the Radial but nobody for the standard rig.
https://www.ussailing.org/olympics/...9e9zl--53WNxnqxL4N9vwf3FptyR4h3xoCHkwQAvD_BwE
https://www.ussailing.org/olympics/...9e9zl--53WNxnqxL4N9vwf3FptyR4h3xoCHkwQAvD_BwE
Bill5
Right now
There are links in the link to people who could answer the question.
onepointfivethumbs
Anarchist
Think it's a rebuilding year, half a dozen Development Squad kids at the Miami OCR, Leo Boucher and Marshall McCann come to mind
Bored Stiff
Member
A rebuilding year with only 18 months to go? What was last yea, a gap year?
Dex Sawash
Demi Anarchrist
A grassroots sailor
MattFranzek
Member
Maybe Senior Cayard can steer that ship in a different direction? Maybe?
Laser needs to die for the Waszp or Moth. Make Olympic sailing fun.
Cayard has just about exactly zero to do with what boat is in the Olympics. He can maybe lead the delegation to make noise, but changing classes is an IOC shit fight.
Besides, you clearly do not understand what the IOC is all about. Here’s a hint. It’s not about fun. Answer; it’s about money.
Lasers are the easiest way for the most countries to compete in the Olympic qualifiers and games.
The reality is the best thing for sailing would be if sailing was dropped from the Olympics.
AnIdiot
Sock
FTFY
Well, I don’t give a tiny fuck about whatever country you are from. If you want to keep living under IOC/WS control, be my guest. Most people in sailing can’t even name the current Olympic classes. So they matter why?
Bored Stiff
Member
What harm is sailing being an Olympic sport doing you @sunseeker ?
In my country, our success at Olympic sailing is a source of pride and those that don’t care about it are not disadvantaged by its existence. I struggle to see how my life would be better if sailing dropped out of the Olympics. It wouldn’t be much worse either, to be honest, but we would lose that bit of civic pride.
In my country, our success at Olympic sailing is a source of pride and those that don’t care about it are not disadvantaged by its existence. I struggle to see how my life would be better if sailing dropped out of the Olympics. It wouldn’t be much worse either, to be honest, but we would lose that bit of civic pride.
AnIdiot
Sock
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 ordinary sailing club members that are directly attributable to Olympic success and the funding associated with it.
I read that it's broken in the USA. That doesn't mean it's broken everywhere. I see you don't care (though apparently you do care enough to abuse random strangers..?) and maybe that's one reason you left Enoshima empty handed?
Edit & PS IOC and WS don't seem to have much influence on my sailing, nor that at my club. What control is it you think they are exercising over us?
AnIdiot
Sock
Hah! 
. More that if that sailors attitude is representative then it's no surprise that the team doesn't get backing for success.
. More that if that sailors attitude is representative then it's no surprise that the team doesn't get backing for success.
MR.CLEAN
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Its more that many, many people have done many, many hours of work and contributed many, many dollars to the US Sailing Team over the past two decades only to be rewarded with crap management, crap planning, and crap results. Most are tired of it and accepting of the fact that the US is no longer a force in the sport outside of a few non-Olympic classes.
