Stories about Olympic Representative
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Video: Andrew Campbell on the Qingdao Green
Posted 1 month, 14 days ago by Sail World New Zealand
2008 US Olympic representative in the Laser Class, Andrew Campbell reports he is happy to be home in San Diego more »
Olympic Profile: 'Disco' Tom Ashley
Posted 1 month, 14 days ago by Sail World New Zealand
New Zealand Olympic representative, Tom Ashley is quick to play down suggestions he's a latter-day John Travolta. more »
Andrew Murdoch 3rd in Medal Race at Kiel
Posted 1 month, 20 days ago by Sail World UK
New Zealand's Olympic Representative in Men's Single Handed Dinghy, Andrew Murdoch, has just finished third in the Medal more »
Kiel Week Day 2: Murdoch tied for the lead
Posted 1 month, 24 days ago by Sail World UK
New Zealand's Olympic representative in the Single Handed Laser Dinghy, Andrew Murdoch, dominated his fleet in the 3 rac more »
Penny Clark gets GBR Radial spot
Posted 4 months, 18 days ago by Sail Juice
Congratulations to Penny Clark, who has just been selected as GBR’s Olympic representative in the Laser Radial. This brings to an end the four-way battle for selection in one of the few classes where Great Britain’s chances are not all that strong. Having said that, Penny did win a bronze on Qingdao waters two years [...] more »
ASB Olympic Finn: One race away - Finn Gold Cup
Posted 6 months, 23 days ago by Sail World New Zealand
2008 New Zealand Olympic representative, Dan Slater reports on the Final day of the Finn Gold Cup more »
Tunnicliffe Rules in Laser Radials
Posted 6 months, 24 days ago by Sail Search Blog
www.Sail-Search.com: Perfect first-day conditions greeted sailors at US SAILING's Rolex Miami OCR, where 369 Olympic and Paralympic sailors from 34 countries are competing in four Olympic classes (Laser, Laser Radial, Star, and Yngling) and three Paralympic classes (2.4mR, SKUD-18 and Sonar). As an International Sailing Federation Grade 1 event, the regatta figures into world rankings, and some countries are selecting their 2008 Olympic and Paralympic teams based on results here. Anna Tunnicliffe, USA, Laser Radial at the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta 2008. Photo Credit ROLEX / Dan Nerney One sailor who doesn't have to worry about whether she'll make it to Qingdao in August is the USA's Olympic representative in the Laser Radial class and US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics member Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation, Fla.). After winning the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Sailing in October, Tunnicliffe changed her focus. "I used to have one drive - to win the Trials. Now I have a new drive; it's to win in China." The Florida sailor today won the second of her class's two races after finishing third in the first. The performance put her in first place overall for the day. "It was only 7-9 knots, which made for tricky sailing," said Tunnicliffe, acknowledging that China will have similar wind conditions but with much more chop and swell than Biscayne Bay had to offer today. "It's still early," she said about this regatta. "With it being light and fluky, it's still wide open." In second overall after today's racing was Paige Railey, another Floridian (Clearwater) whose name seems magnetically drawn to Tunnicliffe's whenever they enter the same events. Railey swapped out with Tunnicliffe to win today's first race and then finished fourth in the second. After she finished behind Tunnicliffe in the Trials, she decided to go "back to the basics and have fun with sailing." She re-set her goals, both long-term (the 2012 Olympics) and short-term (the Laser Radial Worlds in New Zealand this March). "This regatta is part of my build-up to peak at the Worlds," said Railey. "It's too early to tell what will happen here. The fleet is completely stacked with good sailors." Great Britain's Penny Clark sits in third overall, having to watch the Americans closely as well as four of her own national teammates who are, like Clark, still trying to secure for themselves their country's single Olympic Laser Radial spot. "Whoever goes from our team, there is huge medal potential," said Clark," because of how good everyone is, and we have a strong squad. Come China, we will be a pretty hard force to be reckoned with." Great Britain sports the third largest competitor contingent here with 15 entries; the USA has 50, while Canada has 33. In the Laser Radial class alone, 11 Canadian women are competing, all with Olympic aspirations for down the line. "It's individual competition, but we like it when our teammates do well," said Jessica Lombard (Montreal), who humbly sits in last place while Canadian Lisa Ross has secured seventh. The Star class is the largest with 70 entrants, which each day are split into blue and yellow fleets. After Wednesday, they will be re-designated as gold and silver based on their combined overall scoring and the top ten in the gold fleet at the end of fleet racing on Friday will move on to the Olympic medal races on Saturday. The other Olympic classes, as well, will participate in top-ten format medal races, while Paralympic winners will be determined by fleet racing standings calculated through Friday. John McRoberts, Stacie Louttit, Canada 14, Skud Class. Photo Credit ROLEX / Dan Nerney more »
Tunnicliffe Rules in Laser Radials
Posted 6 months, 24 days ago by Sail Search RSA
www.Sail-Search.com: Perfect first-day conditions greeted sailors at US SAILING's Rolex Miami OCR, where 369 Olympic and Paralympic sailors from 34 countries are competing in four Olympic classes (Laser, Laser Radial, Star, and Yngling) and three Paralympic classes (2.4mR, SKUD-18 and Sonar). As an International Sailing Federation Grade 1 event, the regatta figures into world rankings, and some countries are selecting their 2008 Olympic and Paralympic teams based on results here.
Anna Tunnicliffe, USA, Laser Radial at the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta 2008. Photo Credit ROLEX / Dan Nerney
One sailor who doesn't have to worry about whether she'll make it to Qingdao in August is the USA's Olympic representative in the Laser Radial class and US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics member Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation, Fla.). After winning the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Sailing in October, Tunnicliffe changed her focus. "I used to have one drive - to win the Trials. Now I have a new drive; it's to win in China." The Florida sailor today won the second of her class's two races after finishing third in the first. The performance put her in first place overall for the day. "It was only 7-9 knots, which made for tricky sailing," said Tunnicliffe, acknowledging that China will have similar wind conditions but with much more chop and swell than Biscayne Bay had to offer today. "It's still early," she said about this regatta. "With it being light and fluky, it's still wide open."
In second overall after today's racing was Paige Railey, another Floridian (Clearwater) whose name seems magnetically drawn to Tunnicliffe's whenever they enter the same events. Railey swapped out with Tunnicliffe to win today's first race and then finished fourth in the second. After she finished behind Tunnicliffe in the Trials, she decided to go "back to the basics and have fun with sailing." She re-set her goals, both long-term (the 2012 Olympics) and short-term (the Laser Radial Worlds in New Zealand this March). "This regatta is part of my build-up to peak at the Worlds," said Railey. "It's too early to tell what will happen here. The fleet is completely stacked with good sailors."
Great Britain's Penny Clark sits in third overall, having to watch the Americans closely as well as four of her own national teammates who are, like Clark, still trying to secure for themselves their country's single Olympic Laser Radial spot. "Whoever goes from our team, there is huge medal potential," said Clark," because of how good everyone is, and we have a strong squad. Come China, we will be a pretty hard force to be reckoned with."
Great Britain sports the third largest competitor contingent here with 15 entries; the USA has 50, while Canada has 33. In the Laser Radial class alone, 11 Canadian women are competing, all with Olympic aspirations for down the line. "It's individual competition, but we like it when our teammates do well," said Jessica Lombard (Montreal), who humbly sits in last place while Canadian Lisa Ross has secured seventh.
The Star class is the largest with 70 entrants, which each day are split into blue and yellow fleets. After Wednesday, they will be re-designated as gold and silver based on their combined overall scoring and the top ten in the gold fleet at the end of fleet racing on Friday will move on to the Olympic medal races on Saturday. The other Olympic classes, as well, will participate in top-ten format medal races, while Paralympic winners will be determined by fleet racing standings calculated through Friday.
John McRoberts, Stacie Louttit, Canada 14, Skud Class. Photo Credit ROLEX / Dan Nerney more »
Off to a good start...
Posted 6 months, 24 days ago by Sail Karma
One sailor who doesn't have to worry about whether she'll make it to Qingdao in August is the USA's Olympic representative in the Laser Radial class and US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics member Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation, Fla.). After winning the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Sailing in October, Tunnicliffe changed her focus. "I used to have one drive--to win the Trials.Now I have a new drive; it's to win in China." The Florida sailor today won the second of her class's two races after finishing third in the first. The performance put her in first place overall for the day. "It was only 7-9 knots, which made for tricky sailing," said Tunnicliffe, acknowledging that China will have similar wind conditions but with much more chop and swell than Biscayne Bay had to offer today. "It's still early," she said about this regatta. "With it being light and fluky, it's still wide open."In second overall after today's racing was Paige Railey, another Floridian (Clearwater) whose name seems magnetically drawn to Tunnicliffe's whenever they enter the same events. Railey swapped out with Tunnicliffe to win today's first race and then finished fourth in the second. After she finished behind Tunnicliffe in the Trials, she decided to go "back to the basics and have fun with sailing." She re-set her goals, both long-term (the 2012 Olympics) and short-term (the Laser Radial Worlds in New Zealand this March). "This regatta is part of my build-up to peak at the Worlds," said Railey. "It's too early to tell what will happen here. The fleet is completely stacked with good sailors."-http://www.regattanews.com/http://www.sailkarma.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss more »
Women’s Match Racing: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Posted 9 months, 10 days ago by Sail Juice
Carol Cronin is one of the best female keelboat sailors in the USA. A regular podium finisher at international Yngling regattas and match race events, she was US Olympic representative in the Yngling for Athens 2004. Here she offers her view on last week’s decision by ISAF to introduce Women’s Match Racing to the Olympic [...] more »
Australia. Gold Coast sailors have high hope for 2006 Sail Brisbane series on Waterloo Bay
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago by BYM Sailing News
Super fit Gold Coast aquatic athlete Brendan Casey has the personal physique and determination to achieve his goal as a major contender to win Olympic representative honours in the physically demanding Finn dinghy. more »
