‘Brutal conditions’ in a test of survival on Thursday in Rio
The previous word of the day was ‘tricky’. The word of the day for those that went out to sea on day four was ‘survival. The Olympic sailing competition again produced the extremes of flat water and shifty conditions on the inshore courses with the giant wind and size-of-a-house waves out on the seaward courses. […]
Nacra 17 Team GBR Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves
Nacra 17 Team GBR Ben Saxton and Nicola Groves –
Bekatorou and Pateniotis (GRE) probably the shortest Olympic campaigners in history
Bekatorrou and Patentiotis are possibly the shortest Olympic campaigners in history. With one last chance to qualify your nation at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia in Palma de Mallorca in the Nacra17 fleet, Greece’s Sofia Bekatorou called an old friend she had known and had sailed with before, Michalis Pateniotis.