Comments on: Reaction from Women’s Olympic Coach Dom Tidey

By: vivien shaw

vivien shaw — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:50:56 +0000

It is completely unfair on the athletes who will have trained for a lifetime for this event to have Olympic competetion as a goal to aim at and then to take it away

By: will rogers

will rogers — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:36:24 +0000

I think they were pitted against each other because thats what naturally happens between windsurfers and kiters…. the fact is they are very different sports and both should be supported to the olympics

By: Amy Carter - Editor

Amy Carter - Editor — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:31:48 +0000

Tris, it does seem strange that windsurfing and kitesurfing have almost been pitted against each other. Such a shame for two sports which, as you said should be working together. As will be explained in an upcoming feature the prospect of additional medals for kitesurfing was put forward initially.

By: Tris Gibbons

Tris Gibbons — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:59:32 +0000

I struggle to understand why Windsurfing and Kitesurfing ought to be paired in this way. Oughtn’t we be fighting for sailing to have an extra sport in the olympics and Kitesurfing to be it? That way not only is the destruction of the olympic windsurfing class avoided, but the Olympics is allowed to grow as an event to encompass a wider variety of sports.

If rowing can have 14 different events, as opposed to sailing’s 10, then is it too much to ask to just include kiting as a growing sport that needs to be supported.