International Sailing Federation

12 Nov 2012

The Hong Kong Open windsurf-ing competition ended on a jubilant note yesterday as sailors and officials celebrated the unexpected restoration of their discipline to the Olympic Games programme.

Ruling body rejects windsurfing's attempt to return to Olympics

11 Nov 2012

Windsurfing is clinging to a final, slim chance of returning to the Olympic Games despite a fresh setback appearing to drive a nail in its coffin.

Hong Kong hope Olympic ruling will be in their favour

8 Nov 2012

A compromise agreement where windsurfing and its upstart rival kiteboarding will share the Olympic stage at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 could raise Hong Kong's medal hopes - if a deal is hammered out...

Kiteboarding pioneer Su Kay plans to help Hong Kong in the new sport

23 Sep 2012

Kiwi kiteboarding star Su Kay has landed in the troubled waters of Hong Kong - the Bermuda Triangle of the sport where three factions are embroiled in a bitter fight to be recognised as the...

Kiteboarders turn down support from wealthier windsurfer 'brothers'

12 Sep 2012

The new Olympic discipline of kiteboarding has refused the hand of friendship from its "big brother", windsurfing, even though the latter enjoys all the financial support.

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Chan will take flight in medal chase

Tenacious windsurfer Hayley Chan Hei-man is preparing to make a giant aquatic leap for Hong Kong and take up kitesurfing so she can compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

ASF hands windsurfing an Olympic lifeline

Windsurfing's hopes of staying in the Olympic Games have been given a boost following an agreement reached by the Asian Sailing Federation (ASF) over the weekend.

Ugly scrap likely over ouster of windsurfing

Top Hong Kong official Cowen Chiu But-kau believes the International Sailing Federation's (ISAF) general assembly in November will turn ugly after it emerged that Spain's representative at the...

Winds blow 'brothers' in different directions

A controversial decision last weekend by the ISAF, the international sailing federation, to include kiteboarding at the 2016 Olympic Games but drop windsurfing has left both sections of the local...

HK vows to fight olympics exclusion

Stunned officials and coaches fear windsurfing's top-dog position at the Hong Kong Sports Institute is in jeopardy after the sport was controversially replaced by kitesurfing at the 2016 Olympics...

Ho faces stern test in France

Hong Kong's latest sporting superstar, teenaged windsurfer Ho Chi-ho, made a slow start yesterday in his quest to win two world championships in the span of five weeks.