Looking beyond my own needs, with match racing, only a few crews get to do it, not just at the Olympics but all the events beforehand. Often you're sent home early without hardly racing. We just did the match-racing worlds. Eight teams sailed a day and a half after coming from all over the world. In my opinion, that's not the way to progress women's sports.
Fleet racing encourages the numbers.
A lot of women can do it, and you get to stay until the end. Robertson plans to return for the 2004 Olympics but isn't sure she'll stick with the single-handed Europe. I'll have a look in the new year and see what I think of it. She has never sailed an Yngling, the new women's keelboat class, but doesn't think that matters. The boat's almost irrelevant.