Petition urging FISA to preserve lightweight rowing

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 !