SailJuice Blog

What a week for Jacques Rogge and the flickering Olympic flame. It makes our complaints about the sailing events for 2012 look rather trivial by comparison.

But that’s not going to stop us banging on about our favourite subject! It has been a busy week out there in the webosphere in the way of debate and discussion about Olympic Events for 2012. Scuttlebutt has been running a two-part poll to gauge what its readers would do if they were sitting around the ISAF Council table in Qingdao for the Mid-Year Meeting this May.

This was the premise for phase one of the Scuttlebutt poll:

“In our poll, we assumed that the majority voted not to reaffirm the decision, so we then voted on whether the selected events for the Men and Women needed to be changed. The yes-no target was two-thirds, or 66.67%. By the end of the vote, this is how the ‘buttheads felt regarding the following events that had been selected in November 2007 for the 2012 Olympics”:

So, a heavy suggestion to ISAF Council from Scuttlebutt’s readers that ISAF Council NOT ‘reaffirm’ its decision in Estoril last November. Of course, one can always take these online polls with a pinch of salt. Except to say that Scuttlebutt is a US-based publisher, and is likely to have a disproportionate number of US voters on its poll. Bearing in mind that US Sailing was the one that influenced the outcome of the vote in November, the results of this poll do not look very representative of US Sailing’s stance.

Anyway, having resolved that the vote should be reopened, Scuttlebutt is now asking its readers to vote on which Events are the most suitable for the Olympics in 2012. Here is a screen grab of the state of play on Thursday evening.

Right now, if you look at the two Men’s events that were facing off against each other last November, the Multihull is beating the Keelboat. And in the Women’s events, the Skiff is beating the Keelboat. There are a few other notable stats in there which might of interest.

If you don’t like the way this vote is going – or indeed if you do and you want it to stay that way – get yourself over to Scuttlebutt before voting closes sometime on Friday.