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Representation and aspiration by Mark Jardine 14 Jun 21:30 BST Julia Damasiewicz (POL), second place female rider, show just how epic it was to race here on Gran Canaria - 2020 Gran Canaria KiteFoil Open European Championships © IKA Media / Alex Schwarz A lot has been made of the International Olympic Committee and World Sailing's decisions for the tenth sailing medal at the Paris 2024 Games. The general feeling is that the slate of Olympic sailing events is now unrepresentative of sailing and sailors, especially if you weigh more than 82kg or sail a keelboat. For a bit o...

Two-time America’s Cup champion Jimmy Spithill is all for improving diversity and inclusion in sailing, whether it’s along lines of race, gender or socioeconomic status. Spithill is in his first season as skipper and CEO of the U.S. SailGP team, which on Thursday launched Foiling First, a development program designed to be the first professional pathway to foiling in the United States and a catalyst for meaningful change in sailing. Foiling has become all the rage in sailing during the last decade, in which boats fly above the waves at close to freeway speeds, supported only on...

U.S. SailGP Team launches Foiling First diversity program hoping to spur change in sailing Two-time America's Cup champion Jimmy Spithill is all for improving diversity and inclusion in sailing, whether it's along lines of race, gender or socioeconomic status. After all, he needed a bit of help to get going in a sport in which he's become a superstar. Spithill is in his first season as skipper and CEO of the U.S. SailGP team, which on Thursday launched Foiling First, a development program designed to be the first professional pathway to foiling in the United States and a catalyst for meaningf...

Hope there'll be a meeting of minds in the America's Cup negotiations

American Magic, One Design & record-breaking news - Sail-World.com USA Newsletter 11/05/2021 American Magic's challenge and draft Protocol, One Design and record-breaking news Dear Recipient Name January 17, 2021 wasn't a good day for the New York Yacht Club's American Magic syndicate. The team was in New Zealand, contesting the Prada Cup Round Robin series in the lead up to the 36th America's Cup, when they suffered a boat-breaking capsize after rounding a leeward gate during a match race with Luna Rossa. Patriot, American Magic's second-generation AC75, was sailing at a casual (and bal...