The 2013 Miami Rolex OCR (olympic Class Regatta) wrapped up on February 2nd. Israel’s Maayan Davidovich(W) and Spain’s Ivan Pastor(M) saved their best for last in the Women’s and Men’s RS:X events. Davidovich had one win prior to the finals and Pastor had none. They each won their dramatic, winner take all final race to capture gold.
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Windsurfing at the least still has at least 1 Olympics left, and the RS:X men and women are in ful swing competing at the the Skandia Sail for Gold regatta. This is there last event before the Olympics, and taking place in the Olympic Venue at Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy.
First the video above is the highlights from Day 3. Including interviews with Bryony Shaw RS:X Women – GBR, Alessandra Sensini RS:X Women – ITA, JP Tobin RS:X Mens – NZL, Nick Dempsey RS:X- GBR
After further study of ISAG regulations and submissions regarding the decision by council determining windsurfing and kiteboarding, I have conclusions and recommended actions for ISAF. I’ll first state that I believe kiting has a very good future in the Olympics and this shouldn’t be intended to take away any of the great qualities of Kiteboarding. Herein lies in what I believe was an error in ISAF to correctly situate both windsurfing and kiting in the new regulations that it had just adopted.
5 may 2012: ISAF has decided to replace Windsurf by Kitesurf at the Olympic Games.
This decision is not understandable!
Grouped in the Defi Wind, the big international community of Windsurf want to tell this message.
Sign the petition: change.org/petitions/isaf-keep-windsurfing-as-olympic-discipline
With much speculation over how and why such a unexpected decision to remove windsurfing as an Olympic sport has been made, Boards set about finding out the details from someone directly involved in process.
Head over to Boards for the full Interview.
I had to steal this awesome pic from Josh Sampieros facebook group post in Appeal against kite surfing in the Olympics put windsurfing back in! However true it is, I would still like to see windsurfing as an Olympic disciple. So please head over and sign the petition ISAF: Keep Windsurfing as Olympic Discipline.
