With the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games just a little more than a year away there has been more focus than usual from competitors and national sailing organisations on the spate of Olympic classes European Championships taking place over the last couple of weeks. In fact, more than a spate, it’s been
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Olympic sailing: Andy Rice on Dutch courage at 49er/Nacra Europeans
Olympic sailing: 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 European Championship
Live show coverage of the final four days of racing at the Volvo 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 European Championship 2019. Day 1: https://youtu.be/b3fsnwNGyqQ Day 2: https://youtu.be/7pxYk7L_Q54 Day 3: https://youtu.be/OGd_TQC3qEY Day 4: https://youtu.be/rxrV_BLsZ_k Medal Races: https://youtu.be/XBxlZofvxPc
Olympic sailing: British 470 pair take aim at European title
Reigning Olympic champion Hannah Mills and crew Eilidh McIntyre will look to seal their second consecutive major regatta win at the 470 class European Championships this week. Mills and McIntyre (above in main image) will when they face off against the world’s best in San Remo, Italy, for the week-long competition
Olympic sailing: Andy Rice updates from windless Genoa
Olympic sailing: Countdown to Tokyo begins in the Mediterranean
It’s not been an official event on the World Sailing Olympic classes calendar for quite some time now, but the 50th edition of the Princess Sofia Trophy regatta held on Palma Bay, Mallorca last week set running the 15-month countdown the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in quite spectacular fashion. In terms
2020 Offshore World Championship test for new Olympic discipline
Andy Rice: How to stamp out mechanical doping in Olympic sailing
In the first in a series of regular monthly articles about the Olympic sailing scene, British sailing journalist Andy Rice takes a look at the insidious problem of mechanical doping within some of sailing's Olympic classes. Opinions are like... how does that saying go? Oh yes! Opinions are like belly buttons
Yacht Racing Podcast Episode 9 – Dylan Fletcher & Stuart Bithell
The glamorous lifestyle of an Olympic campaigner is often described as “living the dream”, but if ever there were two people whose lives match up to that description it is British Olympic 49er pairing Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell. As well as winning the 49er World Championship in 2017 and being
World Sailing president on Finn Olympic exit & IOC relationship
In this second article based on our exclusive interview with World Sailing president Kim Andersen we discuss sailing’s relationship with the International Olympic Committee and the demise of the Finn class as an Olympic boat after Tokyo 2020. READ THE FIRST ARTICLE HERE With the World Sailing AGM vote in Sarasota, Florida