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Two medal chances remain for Aussie sailors
19 Aug AST/ISAF Olympic News Service
The Australian Sailing team remains in the running for two medals after racing today. Windsurfer Jessica Crisp goes into tomorrow’s RS:X Women’s medal race in fourth position and the Tornado team remains equal first overall.
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Crunch time for 50-footers at Airlie Beach
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19 Aug Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week
The Melbourne yacht Living Doll has retained her pointscore lead in the grand prix IRC division 1 of the Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week, despite a boat-crunching start, a broken headsail halyard and a blown-out spinnaker in today's heavy weather passage race.
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Olympian masters brute breeze
19 Aug Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week
Sydney 2000 Soling class Olympian Neville Wittey admitted to experiencing a few hairy moments when he steered Geoff Pearson’s Sydney sloop Arajilla to her fifth consecutive win in the Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week today.
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Movie star pays tribute to Aussie sailing stars
18 Aug AST
The Australian Sailing Team won two Olympic gold medals in Qingdao today with both the Men's 470 and Women's 470 crews claiming victory. Nicole Kidman has been in touch with the boys throughout their Olympic campaign and was thrilled when they won gold today.
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Australians dominate the 18' Skiff International
18 Aug St Francis Yacht Club
San Francisco, California, USA: Sometimes you battle the competition, sometimes the elements, a distinction Australia's Seve Jarvin found between winning the JJ Giltinan Regatta for the world championship in Sydney earlier this year and the seventh annual 18' Skiff International Regatta hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club this week (12-16 August).
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Kiwi cruisers planning a 'Hobart'
18 Aug Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week
After competing in, and thoroughly enjoying, sailing in the non-spinnaker Cruising division of two regattas at the Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week, New Zealander Keith Munro is planning a big step upwards in yacht racing - contesting this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
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Young guns complete Australian double in the 470s
18 Aug ISAF Olympic News Service
Young guns Elise RECHICHI and Tessa PARKINSON completed an Australian double in the 470 fleets by securing the gold medal in the Women's Two Person Dinghy event at the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition.
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Aussie 49er crew claims final race and gold
18 Aug ISAF Olympic News Service
Australian's Nathan WILMOT and Malcolm PAGE won today's Men's 470 Medal Race to take the gold medal in style, whilst Great Britain won its third medal of the Olympic Sailing Competition with a silver.
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Danish crew declared gold medal winners following 19 hour wait
18 Aug ISAF Olympic News Service
The Danish crew of Jonas WARRER and Martin IBSEN has won the gold medal in the Skiff - 49er event at the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition after an agonising 19-hour wait on a protest decision affecting Sunday's Medal Race.
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49er Medal Race completed but three protests pending; Aussies provisionally fifth
17 Aug ISAF Olympic News Service/yachte
After an incredible 49er Medal Race on a stormy Fushan Bay, three protests will be heard by the International Jury which could have a major impact on the results.
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49er results still unofficial
18 Aug ISAF Olympic News Service
Results from the incredible 49er Medal Race held today (Sunday) at the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition are still unofficial with the Jury reconvening on Monday morning to decide on a protest lodged after the provisional gold medallists sailed the race in another team's boat. An enthralling Medal Race provided a dramatic finish to an incredible day at the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center.
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Heartbreak follows heroics; protest pending 49er result
18 Aug AST
The Australian 49er crew of Nathan Outteridge and Ben Austin sailed a heroic, rollercoaster final race in driving rain, blustering winds and heavy seas this afternoon, only to watch their medal chance blown away with the gusts which capsized them twice just before the finish line.
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New Living Doll for Michael Hiatt
17 Aug Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week
Melbourne yachtsman Michael Hiatt is sailing his second last regatta, the Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week – and leading the IRC series - with his current 50-footer Living Doll.
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Quantum too quick at Airlie Beach
17 Aug Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week
Graham Sherring’s baby six metre Sports Boat Quantum Sails continued to produce unmatched boat speed to dominate her class in the 2008 Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week on a windy Pioneer Bay today.
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470 men and women poised for gold
17 Aug ISAF Olympic News Service
The Olympic Regatta saw the first gold medal won today (Saturday), but it didn't come from a Medal Race. It was the Australian 470 sailors, Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page, who sailed a phenomenal series. All they've got to do in the Medal Race is sail around and finish the race.
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Outteridge and Austin slip to third
16 Aug SailJuice.com
This regatta is going phenomenally well for Australia, but one event where things took a downward turn today was in the 49er. Nathan Outteridge and Ben Austin slipped from first to third overall, while Danes Jonas Warrer and Martin Kirketerp Ibsen sailed another consistent day to move comfortably ahead on points going into the Medal Race.
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Gold Gold Gold for Australia?
16 Aug AST
The Australian Sailing Team is set to claim at least two medals, potentially three, after today’s race results put the Men’s and Women’s 470 teams into emphatic leads, and the 49ers go into their final race tomorrow to challenge from third place.
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Beating the boys at their own game
16 Aug Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week
A 15 year old high school girl from Yeppoon is showing the boys how it’s done at the 19th Annual Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week. St Ursula’s student Shelley White was an integral member of 49 foot Audi-Centre Melbourne which had another fine race today to remain just one point from the overall handicap lead in IRC Division One.
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470 sailors within striking distance of two Gold medals
16 Aug ISAF Olympic News Service
Poor wind conditions resulted in the postponement of today's Medal Races at the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition, but a fantastic performance by Australia's 470 sailors puts them within striking distance of two gold medals.
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Living Doll takes Airlie Beach day two IRC honours
16 Aug Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week
Living Doll takes Airlie Beach day two IRC honours
Melbourne yachtsman Michael Hiatt today steered his Cookson 50 Living Doll to a fine IRC handicap victory in the 29 nautical mile Molle Islands Race. Sailing a clever tactical race around this striking island group, Hiatt kept the conventional keeled 50-footer within a minute of the leading group of canting keelers to finish a close fourth across the line and a clear winner on corrected time.
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Australian Sailing Team within the top ten in six classes
16 Aug AST
The long wait for wind in Qingdao today was worth it for the Australian Sailing Team which is within the top ten in six classes. Windsurfer Jessica Crisp won her first ever Olympic race and is closing the gap on China’s Jian Yin. Crisp is now second overall on 10 points, chasing Yin who is leading with six points.
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SailJuice.com's take on day 7
16 Aug SailJuice.com
As one Aussie coach observed this evening, "It's time for Tom to have a big night out." In a regatta of Aussie high achievement, Slingsby seems to have been the sacrificial lamb at the altar of his team mates' success, but his time will come. Not in Qingdao, but one day.
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Spanish world champs score the first Tornado win
16 Aug ISAF Olympic News Service
Two-time World Champions Fernando ECHAVARRI and Anton PAZ of Spain won the first race in the Multihull - Tornado event at the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition. Race 1 of the Tornado Opening Series got under way almost three hours late on Friday, starting in moderate air and finishing in light air on Course A.
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French threaten Aussie 470 overall lead
16 Aug ISAF Olympic News Service
French 470 pair Nicolas CHARBONNIER and Olivier BAUSSET chipped away at Nathan WILMOT and Malcolm PAGE's overall lead on Friday, finishing the day's race in moderate air two places ahead of their closest competition.
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Kiwis fly - but not fast enough at Airlie Beach
16 Aug Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week media services
New Zealand sailors took first day line honours today at the 2008 Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week being sailed in the Whitsundays of tropical Far North Queensland, but handicap honours went to the Victorian boat Audi Centre Melbourne.
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Skandia Geelong Week on the right tack
15 Aug Rhumbline Marketing
Organisers of Skandia Geelong Week were elated when the City of Greater Geelong released data today showing Geelong Week produced an economic impact close to $11m. According to council data the investment produced a return greater than 70:1.
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Performance Boating Sales Pittwater Weekend
15 Aug PBS
Snakes and ladders. Positions changing almost at random, without rhyme or reason. That was the key note of an exciting but frustrating weekend of racing. Congratulations to Raging Bull for the line honours double for monohulls, to the singlehanders Lik Lik and Epic Venture for handicap honours, and to Big Bird for first overall at Pittwater.
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Racing resumes in Qingdao
15 Aug AST
Sailing resumes in Qingdao today after racing was postponed due to inclement weather and lack of wind yesterday. With oscillating winds of 7-9 knots forecast for today, there should be some real action on the water. The wind blowing through the mountains at the rear of Qingdao swirls as it moves over the water. Combined with the moving tide, it will make for a challenging day of competition.
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Beijing Olympic Games: top five current results
14 Aug Scuttlebutt
Here are the top five results as of day six in Qingdao.
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Green Dragon Team qualify for the Volvo Ocean Race 2008/09
14 Aug Green Dragon media services
The Green Dragon Volvo Open 70 has completed its qualification passage for the Volvo Ocean Race 2008/09. Having decided to find the most testing weather for the trip, conditions onboard were extreme as the crew, which included two Australians, rounded the famous Fastnet Rock and headed north-east straight into the North Atlantic.
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