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Gladwell's Line: Louis Vuitton World Series in Match Racing headwinds
Just days after being launched in Paris, the Louis Vuitton World Series would seem to be beating into a stiffening breeze.
At the launch of the new Series along with the World Sailing Teams Association, questions were immediately raised as to how the new event would work with the existing World Match Racing Tour; and how the Association could use 'World' in its name without the prior sanction of the governing body of sailing, the International Sailing Federation.
Scott MacLeod, is Director of the World Match Racing Tour, and went through a similar, but more protracted exercise with the world body, over the same issues, culminating in a deal that was struck, in principle, in just 15minutes with the ISAF Executive.
That deal ended a difficult situation which had started many years previously as various individual match racing regattas around the world decided to join hands and create a world circuit. That mantle was then taken a step further with the formation of the World Match Racing Association, and with an unofficial world title being contested.
The tour led to the formation of the Swedish Match World Tour, which conflicted with the ISAF's World Match Racing Championship.
After the ban cut in on tobacco products advertising, MacLeod's organisation was in the market for a new sponsor, and a situation that had been described as two sharks circling one another was bought to a satisfactory conclusion - and a new beginning with the creation of the World Match Racing Tour, which now runs for nine months of the year with nine regattas staged in Europe, Scandinavia and Asia.
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