Petition urging FISA to preserve lightweight rowing

My son is a light weight rower and he will never be a large boy but he is good for his weight

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 And I can't beat Mo Farrah. What's your point?

Rowing is a fantastic and highly competitive sport. It must continue to be made feasible to compete at the highest level with a smaller physique. Eliminating lightweight rowing will ultimately reduce the pool of competitors across the board and potentially affect the heavyweight performance - more markedly at grass roots level.
We live in an age of inclusiveness so eliminating a category just seems wrong!

Because lightweight rowing and gender equality are important

Because if there are no more LW categories, rowing won't be a fair sport anymore. They won't get any medals like they used to. Also because I am a LW myself

I'm a lightweight and I think, that Olympic lightweight rowing is very important for young rowers

in France height and size of the average people allows us to be good lightweights. Making the category disappear will take the sport back in time, where most of the young rowers could not hope for international level

Les poids légers permettent d'avoir une véritable universalité chez les hommes et les femmes. Les réduire va à l'encontre de l'esprit Olympique qui se veut rassembleur des peuples.

Most of the lightweight races are incredibly tight, so why cancel the races with the best battles for gold?
And its fascinating to see what pretty similar men (same weight, mostly same height, same ergo) do to get ahead of each other

I am a lightweight who has dreams of going to the olympics

To preserve one of the most beautyfull boat of the olympic program

It is important to ensure that people of all body types is represented in rowing.

Better question: why pann lightweight rowing ? .. Mhmmmmm ??

I am a lightweight rower. Many who love to row can't train themselves into being over 6 feet tall. The option of Lightweight rowing allows a much wider swath of athletes the chance to participate in a sport claiming it wants to be more inclusive. Adding a women's lightweight sweep event and maintaining the men's event, helps achieve that goal.

Le discipline olimpiche in uno sport come il canottaggio andrebbero aumentate e non diminuite. Togliere il 4- pl significherebbe distruggere la categoria dei pesi leggeri e infrangere il sogno olimpico di centinaia di ragazzi...

Because lightweight rowers train as much as heavyweights and need to be at the exact weight and there are enough top class lightweight rowers to put lightweight single on Olympic programme

Beyond the argument regarding the genetic advantage of non-lightweight rowers, keeping the lightweight category is crucial if rowing wants to remain a sport of its era. Following Paris agreement on climate change, humanity has to decrease its impact on the environment, reduce C02 emissions and so on. To achieve that objective, we will need to consume less resources globally, to define limits and to optimize everything we can do in regards of that limit. Lightweight rowing is a perfect example of this attitude. You have a maximum weight, and then it is up to you to optimize all the parameters of the performance to become the best (technical training, physical training, nutrition, health, equipment, ...). You can't count on genetic advantage and profusion of means as in non-lightweight rowing. So let's keep lightweight rowing !

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 The difference is the same - in boxing you have several weigth classes. Why NOT in rowing.?

And adressing this: why NOT cut Down on the number of boxing classes AS this is certainly NOT a female sport - WHO decided that the balance should prevail within all sports knowing that some sports dont inklude both sexes? 

Syncrone swimming was invented to include more female competitors- a competition which is not with World Wide scope. Rowing lightweight females are counted in thousands. Let Them join instead. And cut Down boxing ro other mal sports.

 

 

An old lightweight rower myself I totally support this petition as lightweight rowing gave me a fantastic opportunity to practise what I consider the best team sport ever. Women and lightweight people should not be deprived of the Olympic Games dream

Lwt rowing is an art

Some of the lightweight racing has so close just look at the fours race at the London Olympics.

Because it's unfair innit

It would be a real shame to see lightweight rowing removed from the Olympic program. If the Olympics is all about inclusiveness, then how can they remove events like lightweight rowing that have more diversity in entries and medalists their heavyweight counterparts? Some nations just do not have the bodies to field competitive heavyweight boats!

I love what I do

Lightweight rowing has been around longer than the olympics