Too Close to Call for Olympic Debutants (49erFX Preview)
The Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition welcomes the new, fast, and intense 49erFX. Over the Rio 2016 cycle, the Women’s Skiff has not failed to disappoint! In its first Olympic outing, the 49erFX looks set to be one the most hotly contested fleets with no stand out performers grabbing the headlines throughout the quad. While […]
The 49er, No Love Lost (Olympic Preview)
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke of New Zealand will enter the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition as overwhelming favourites to conquer in the Men’s Skiff (49er) having set a world class standard after London 2012. Australia’s Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen defeated the Kiwis at London 2012 but since then, the Kiwis have completely dominated. […]
Alec Wilkinson Launches Olympic Preview Show
Sailing journalist Alec Wilkinson just dropped his new podcast and directed his second episode as an Olympic preview show. He grabbed a bunch of his mates from the sailing World including tho former Olympic medalists and got the chat going. Check out Episode 2 First Alec chats through the 10 events with Andy Rice […]
12th and 14th Placed Finishers from World Championship Denied Olympic Berths
Rio News Sailing is facing very tough issues right now. The Olympic movement has already removed Paralympic sailing from 2020 and given World Sailing a clear warning to make sailing: More universal (more countries participating) 50-50 gender equity Increase the appeal to youth (largely seen as a request to make sailing interesting/attractive) There have been […]
New Zealand stars shine in the Intergalactics on 49er, Jana and Katja, of Denmark, were the brightest of the universe in 49erFX
The 2nd Intergalactic Championship of 49er and 49erFX, which gathered the cream of the world’s fastest and radical Olympic monotype, ended with a different race. The third and final race of Friday counted double points and brought the crews inverted: the skippers on the bow and bowmen at the helm. Thus, the only Brazilian duo […]
The Intergalactics reaches final day with superstars fighting for the title, injuries, more protests and lots of wind
The Intergalactic Championship of 49er and 49erFX, in the Yacht Club of Rio de Janeiro, has reached its penultimate day with some of the top class sailors in the uppermost positions in both the men’s and female’s fleets. Tomorrow the last three races will be competed, and the last one, the grand finale, will have […]
Great races outside the bay, lots of wind and capsizes and a big hit on the second day of Integalactics in Rio
A fleet of 41 boats, 23 male (49er) and 18 females (49erFX), which brings together the elite of the world’s fastest and most extreme Olympic monotype is since last week gathered at the Yacht Club of Rio de Janeiro in two great events. First, was the South American Championship and, since this Monday until Friday, […]
Breaks, bruises and capsizes in Guanabara Bay on the first day of the 49er and 49erFX Intergalactics in Rio
The strong winds, especially on the men’s fleet, where gusts of 25knots blew in the later races, took its toll on the Intergalactic Championship of 49er and 49erFX in the venue of the 2016 Olympics. After the South Americans last week, the leading international names in the fastest and showiest of Olympic monohulls were in […]
Familiar faces and new challengers take the podium on the 49er and 49erFX South American Championship in Rio.
Rio de Janeiro – The wrap up of the VIII South American 49er Championship and the II 49erFX South American Championship took place in a good south by southwest breeze of 10 to 14 knots on the epicentre of the international Olympic sailing nowadays, the Guanabara bay, in Rio de Janeiro. The cloudy day began […]
Sun, protests and incredible rises on the 3rd day of the 49er South Americans
Image: Fred Hoffmann caught the flying boys on Guanabara Bay this Friday. Rio de Janeiro – The third and penultimate day of the 49er and 49erFX South American Championships was raced in a condition that lives up to Rio de Janeiro’s reputation, a clear sunny and hot day (30°C), with a 10 to 12 knots […]