Heavy-Handed Decision
Apr 09, 2019
2 minutes
By Pim Van Hemmen
Since 1896, there have been four dozen Olympic sailing classes. Over time, the Olympics dropped classes for economic, political, logistical or technological reasons, but since the 1970s, the main reason for changing classes has been gender inequality—a short-coming that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been trying to correct for the past 40 years.
Until 1980, Olympic
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