"ISAF Selects Kiteboarding For Rio 2016

2012 ISAF Mid-Year Meeting
Stresa, Italy

The ISAF Council voted that Kiteboarding will replace windsurfing for the men's and women's board events and confirmed the equipment that will be used for the Women's Skiff and Mixed Multihull Events."

http://www.sailing.org/38281.php

Ouch! Die hard pole dancers are gunna hate that! Wonder what they are saying on the windsurfing forums about us?

Interesting that it was ISAF and not the olympic committee that had to make this decision.
Nico