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Team GB – Thinking the Unthinkable!

Some confusion regarding the selection of athletes for the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games seems to have been caused by IOC/BOA reports that qualified athletes will not have to re-qualify

Giles Scott . . . Have Finn – Will Travel

Giles Scott will take his Finn dinghy to Auckland, as he did to Cagliari, to maintain his chance of a gold medal at the rescheduled 2020 Olympic Games

New Zealand ready for 36th America’s Cup despite COVID-19

In a recent interview on Radio New Zealand, yaching journalist Richard Gladwell said that he expected the America’s Cup to go ahead and for New Zealand to emerge from lockdown as quickly as it went in

International sports bodies make way for delayed Tokyo Games

International sports bodies have begun rescheduling next year’s competitions to make way for the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics

Rock and a Hard Place for Ainslie

Ben Ainslie and his Ineos Team UK are caught between a rock and a hard place as the coronavirus emergency tightens its grip in New Zealand

New Zealand lock down gives advantage to ETNZ

With all European America’s Cup events now cancelled, focus is on New Zealand for the ACWS Auckland/Christmas Cup events in December 2020 and the 36th America’s Cup Match

Latest World Sailing Rankings – March 2020

Latest World Sailing Rankings of 2020 included the recent 49er, 49erFX and Nacra17 Worlds, the RS:X Worlds, Laser and Radial World Championships.

Selected for Tokyo 2020 . . . but for 2021?

The postponement  of the Tokyo Olympic Games to – no later than summer 2021 – because of the coronavirus pandemic raises a number of questions for the RYA and Team GB

UK Sailing Clubs close down for duration of the Government restrictions

The Olympics may be the biggest event to be felled by the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, but the list of postponed and cancelled sailing events continues to grow

INEOS to produce 1 million bottles of hand sanitiser per month

INEOS, the company behind Sir Ben Ainslie’s America’s Cup Team, is to build two hand sanitiser plants to produce 1 million bottles of hand sanitiser per month

Portsmouth America’s Cup World Series event cancelled

America’s Cup holders Team New Zealand have confirmed the cancellation of the World Series event in Portsmouth UK

A new Flying Fifteen is born, brimming with innovation

A new Flying Fifteen – FF4073 – is born, brimming with innovation from the workshop of Phil Evans