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West Coast Report
Day 6
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Wind lovers find little to celebrate on a mild day
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA---Happy birthday---take that! There was hardly enough breeze to blow out the candles on John Lovell and Charlie Ogletree's mutual 40th birthday, which they would rather forget, as Robbie Daniel and crew Hunter Stunzi broke their week-long deadlock to take command of the Tornado Trials at San Diego.
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Thursday, October 11
, 2007
U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Sailing:
BATTLES FOR CLASS WINS STILL TIGHT AFTER FIVE
After five days of racing at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Sailing, racing fans might assume that the track of probability is starting to gel and sailors who have sailed strong are only getting closer to their winning destiny. But at a regatta that has drawn the nation's best, that isn't the case—and after five days of racing, class leaders are still battling hard to keep their edge.
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Day 5
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Railey in Finn class by himself, but Casey joins the chase
Only the Finns sailed Wednesday, notching two races---both won by frontrunner Zach Railey---to stay one ahead of schedule with nine in the book and four days remaining. Their "lay day" was windless Monday. Wednesday was much better with 12-16 knots and harbor seals frolicking around the course.
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Day 4
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
The birthday boys are in a battle to reach
their fourth Olympics
John Lovell of New Orleans and Charlie Ogletree of Kemah, Tex. have sailed a Tornado catamaran for their country in the last three Olympics, won silver medals at the most recent Games in Athens in 2004 and are now trying for their fourth in a deadlocked battle with Robbie Daniel and crew Hunter Stunzi. The teams have been dead even with 1-2 records after each of the four days of racing.
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LEADERS USE SHIFTY NORTHEASTERLIES TO
FUEL PEAK PERFORMANCES
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Competitors at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Sailing grappled today with shifty northeasterly winds. Sizeable shifts turned the water into a patchwork of oscillations that racers navigated carefully, like a minefield. But there were some who definitely chose to travel the right route.
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Day 3
Monday, October 8, 2007
Tough day for race committees from
Marina del Rey to San Diego
Whether Qingdao's notoriety for wimpy wind will ring true for the Olympic sailing next August, most of the competitors in America's West Coast Trials got plenty of practice dealing with it Monday. The Finns' day at Newport Beach was a complete loss, while everyone else except the 49ers at San Diego and the RS:X sailboards at Long Beach spent much of the afternoon twiddling their tillers before ample breeze arrived for fair contests.
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U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Sailing: Leaders retain edge but point scores tell story of tough battles ahead
October 8, 2007
After the third day of racing at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Sailing, leaders in all five classes racing off Aquidneck Island are holding onto their leading edge. But a study of the scores tells a deeper story: rivalries are heating up and points spreads are progressing into the territory of little-margin-for-error sailing.
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Day 2
Sunday, October 7, 2007
A wild, wacky and windy day for Olympic hopefuls
If it's true that challenging conditions bring the best sailors to the top, the U.S. may be on its way to sending one of its stronger teams to the Olympics because they saw plenty of that Sunday up and down the Southern California coast.
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ast Coast Report
U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Sailing: Tunnicliffe, Funk Lead Laser Radial and Laser Classes
Newport, R.I. (October 7, 2007)
The singlehanded Laser and Laser Radial share a lot: the same hull design and the same race course at the mouth of the Sakonnet River during the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Sailing. But one thing these two Olympic classes may not share at this nine-day regatta is their story line...
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U.S
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Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Sailing
October 6-14, 2007
470 dinghy, Men, Alamitos Bay Yacht Club/US Sailing Center, Long Beach, Calif. / McNay and Biehl: Stuart McNay and Graham Biehl posted a pair of subtle second-place finishes to seize the first-day lead over the favored Mikee Anderson-Mitterling and Dave Hughes (5-1), who had to claw their way back from a poor beginning in the opening race.
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Light- to Medium Air and Fog Mark
First Day of Racing for
Five Classes
Newport/Middletown, R.I. (October 6, 2007)
If you could bottle the adrenaline as the 70-boat fleet racing the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team Trials – Sailing traveled to starting lines today off Aquidneck Island, you might make a dent in the nation's energy reserves.
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Racing at U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials
– Sailing Begins October 6
October 3, 2007
On October 6, the nation's top Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls will sail to starting lines on the U.S. East and West coasts to compete in the one regatta that will have the most dramatic impact on their sailing careers so far in this quadrennium: the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Sailing.
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Top-Ranked Members of the US Sailing Team Head to Qingdao, China for Olympic Test Event
August 8, 2007
One year before the 2008 Olympic Games, 18 number one-ranked members of the US Sailing Team (USST) are gearing up to compete against the best sailors in the world at The Good Luck Beijing - 2007 Qingdao International Regatta.
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U.S. Sailors Bring Home Four Medals
From Pan Am Games
July 29, 2007
USA sailors will bring home a stash of medals -- two gold, a silver and a bronze -- from the XV Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which concluded today.
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USA Wins Gold, Silver at 2007 Volvo Youth Sailing
ISAF World Championships
July 22, 2007
American sailors won two impressive medals at the 2007 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships in Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Emily Dellenbaugh (Easton, Conn.) and Briana Provancha (San Diego, Calif.) will bring home a gold medal in the 29er Girls class, while Anne Haeger (Lake Forest, Ill.) secured silver in the Laser Radial.
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USA Qualifies for 10 Olympic Classes at
ISAF Sailing World Championships
July 16, 2007
After two weeks of competitive racing and challenging conditions in Cascais, Portugal, the 2007 US Sailing Team wrapped up a successful ISAF Sailing World Championships with 10 Olympic berths, a silver medal and six top-ten finishes.
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USA's Sally Barkow and Crew Win Silver Medal
at ISAF Sailing World Championship
July 11, 2007
After an extremely tight Medal Race today, USA's Yngling trio of Sally Barkow, Carrie Howe, and Debbie Capozzi won a silver medal at the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championship in Cascais, Portugal.
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