2008 Olympic Regatta: Positive reactions to supplied equipment
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Reactions received from racers taking part in the windsurfing events at the Olympic Regatta have been very very positive on the RS:X equipment supplied by Neil Pryde. Read the rest of this entry »
2008 RS:X Youth World Championship: Book Flights & Hotel NOW….
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008The 2008 RS:X Youth World Championship will take place from December 6th - 14th just after the 2008 RS:X Asian Championhsip which runs from November 28th to December 5th.
2008 Olympic Regatta: Jian Yin medal will inspire development
Monday, August 25th, 2008Believe you me, the place went bonkers after Yin Jian won China’s first ever sailing gold medal, and it seemed as though Chinese supporters appeared from every nook and cranny until we feared the jetty would sink under their weight. Read the rest of this entry »
2008 Olympic Regatta: Give us your answer to the medal race
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008The medal race, aimed to be the climax of each class’s series at the Olympics, a media-hyped orgasm, is proving little short of a tediously boring thirty-minute yawn in which the gold medallist is often found near the back of the ten boats that have qualified. For media (and for that read television) it simply will not do. Read the rest of this entry »
2008 Olympic Regatta: Windiest since Seoul 1988
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Qingdao showed that it was not the light air, fairy puff venue that it has been mis-labelled for the past four or more years. Read the rest of this entry »
2008 Olympic Regatta: Target time for a medal race
Friday, August 22nd, 2008The RS:X Standard Sailing Instructions state in article # 18.1.2 that the target time for a medal race is 20 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »
2008 Olympic Regatta: Bob Fisher on the medal race concept…
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Is the harvesting of the share of television rights monies by ISAF too high a price to pay for the incursion of Great God Television into our sport? Read the rest of this entry »
2008 Olympic Regatta: China’s first ever gold medal
Thursday, August 21st, 20082008 Olympic Regatta: That’s a long time between drinks!
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Yesterday on Fushan Bay, Tom Ashley won the Gold medal in the RS:X Mens windsurfing event, the first Gold Medal New Zealand has won since Barbara Kendall’s in 1992 in Barcelona. Read the rest of this entry »
2008 Olympic Regatta: Jian Yin (CHN) takes GOLD!
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008In a light wind medal race, Jian Yin (CHN) finished third which was enough to take the gold medal by one point. The first ever gold medal for China in windsurfing. Jian now has a gold medal to add to her silver won in Athens 4 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »