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A glimmer of light on the horizon for those multihull sailors who were cast into outer darkness last year after the Tornado completed its last race in an Olympic Games, that humdinger of a Medal Race in Qingdao.

ISAF President Goran Petersson pleaded for the multihull lobby to calm down and let him get on with the business of negotiating an ’11th Medal’ in behind-the-scenes meetings with the International Olympic Committee.

After months of silence on this matter, the ISAF website issued a follow-up report from the Mid-Year Meeting which has just concluded in Poland. It’s an encouraging story, and presumably ISAF wouldn’t be saying anything about this unless there really was genuine hope of getting the multihull back into Weymouth 2012.

Here’s that report from ISAF’s website:

2012 Olympic Sailing Competition

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