Deletion of List of sailors at the Summer Olympics

Comment: WP:NOTDIR and I don't see encyclopaedic value; it is not possible to create an entry regarding the actual topic of e.g. letter 'a', and I doubt it is possible to create one for the entire thing; unless there is published data specific to 'all Summer Olympic sailors' (rather than specific ones / specific years) as it would constitute |original research - lists are not exempt from basic requirements. If this were accepted, then I can think of over 9000 other 'lists'. If it is just a list of names, then surely that is what categories are for
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR)

Comment: We already have :Category:Olympic sailors by year and :Category:Olympic sailors by country, and notwithstanding the pros and cons of lists versus categories per ategories, lists, and navigation templates, I think it is a bad precedent to create lists like these. There are a couple of hundred thousand past Olympic competitors, so these lists would be incredibly unwieldy if completed for all sports.  Every Olympic competitor is already listed elsewhere, such as individual event results (e.g. Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Finn class etc.) and on per-country articles (e.g. Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics#Sailing) so I'm not sure we need a ''third'' way of listing these people
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Copyrights (WP:C)