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Olympic sailing dropped the Finn dinghy

The heavyweight single-hander last appeared at Tokyo in 2021 The Finn had been an Olympic class since 1952 and was removed when the programme was reshaped for Paris 2024. Newer classes were added, including windsurfing and kiteboarding events, to widen the appeal. Mixed-gender crews now race in several classes. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The heavyweight single-hander last appeared at Tokyo in 2021. The figure is taken from World Sailing, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.