Broadneck Olympian Blogs on Recent Changes to Her Sport
Windsurfing will return as an Olympic sport in 2016, and in 2020, kiteboarding will be added alongside it.
Farrah Hall, an Olympic windsurfer from Cape St. Claire, has written a blog on a recent revival in her sport, which was on the cusp of being removed from the Olympics. "I feel we are entering a better and exciting time for the sport of Olympic sailing," Hall said in a recent posting on her blog. When Patch last spoke with Hall, windsurfing as a sport in the Olympics was set to be replaced by kiteboarding. It seemed like a done deal at the end of the 2012 summer games in London. Hall said she would be training for both windsurfing and kiteboarding. But a recent vote by the International Sailing Federation secured windsurfing for the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro. Kiteboarding will become an official Olympic sport in the 2020 games. Hall said…
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10:52 am on Saturday, September 8, 2012
@ Chad Lyons, You appear to be adding this comment to many windsurf/kiteboard/olympic articles, and while I don't disagree with you on the flaws in the ISAF vote I do not see the necessity of the anti kiteboard rubbishing your comments end with. As a kiteboarder I was shocked and disappointed to see windsurfing taking the axe and would gladly aid in its reinstatement. Even at the expense of my … more ›