ISAF Youth World Championship 2015 - Langkawi MAS - political disturbances

The ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship in Malaysia will begin next Monday, and with 82 nations this event will be attended by as many nations as never before .... and there is hardly any other sport with such a world-wide spread. But there is now one nation less: Israel, with the defending champion in the windsurfers boys and a windsurfer girl retired as the organisers did not allow them to carry the Israel flag. The reason given by the Government was that Visas have not been issued because Malaysia does not have any diplomatic ties with Israel. An article in Sail-World.