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(Change)British Sailing Legend Andrew Simpson Dies in Americas Cup Tragedy
The devastating news of the loss of one of British sailing’s true legends, Andrew ‘Bart’ Simpson, was like a bad dream. Unfortunately waking this...
Read MoreThe devastating news of the loss of one of British sailing’s true legends, Andrew ‘Bart’ Simpson, was like a bad dream. Unfortunately waking this...
Read MoreOur UK editor Gael Pawson explains the background behind a recent announcement by Bruce Kirby that he was rechristening his famous Laser as the Kirby Torch. The Laser...
Read MoreThe first time I remember really talking with Charlie was on a tour of his private gym. My two Olympic teammates and I had been invited up to the sunny, open room that...
Read MoreSailors have learned over and over again that nothing is final until the ISAF General Council sings. Now that the 2012 Annual Conference has ended, the Windsurfers are...
Read MoreA recent New York Times opinion piece singled out sailing as a sport that should be eliminated from the Olympics because it is expensive and exclusive. Actually, under...
Read MoreAfter holding on to the #1 world ranking for the past year, Anna Tunnicliffe’s team were the gold medal favorites going into the Olympics. Anna won gold in the...
Read MoreA bit of background: 22 year old Dublin native Annalise Murphy came into the 2012 Olympics as a longshot for a medal in the women’s singlehanded class—and then shocked...
Read MoreIf today’s two medal races were anything to go by, we are set for another amazing week… although I’m not sure my nerves can take eight more races filled with so...
Read MoreWhen I drove into the media centre today, the BBC was quite appropriately interviewing the family of US women’s match racing forward crew Debbie Cappozi; they’d been...
Read MoreOkay, I’m going to share a fact so secret it’s not even on my Facebook page: Saturday, June 23, 2012 is my 48th birthday. Now that’s usually not significant to anyone...
Read MoreAnna Tunnicliffe (sailing with Maclaren teammates Molly Vandermoer and Deb Capozzi) have finally broken the Rolex curse. Last week they won the 2012 US Women’s Match...
Read MoreUntil a few years ago, sailors from the US had only one obstacle standing between them and going to the next Olympics: winning a stand-alone, winner-take-all, domestic...
Read MoreThe Rolex ISAF Sailors of the Year awards were announced during the 2011 International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Annual Meeting in Puerto Rico. With five male and four...
Read MoreShaun White. Michael Phelps. Bob Soven? We all recognize the first two names, but the last one might require a Google search. Go ahead. I’ll wait. So, now you know he’s...
Read MoreFor the first time, USSailing is trying something that other countries have done for years: selecting most of its 2012 Olympic team out of two international events. We...
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