Maybe we should be concentrating less on Ski touring and more on downhill after our less than impressive olympic showing. I personally find the scrapping of 'downhill' in the AT sense, to be a bad thing, using ski-touring as a first taster of skiing has the potential to put people off the sport, however, as I've never had the time off to do it I can't realy comment.
I did have the time off to go bobsleighing, which I can recommend to anyone, however perhapse you'd like to see that withdrawn as well as how often do we goto war in two man bobs?