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News and Features from the Official Website for World Sailing, the world governing body for the sport of sailing.

Tom Squires set for the RS:X World Championships © Joao Costa Ferreira Team GB windsurfers Tom Squires and Emma Wilson are relishing a forecast for big breeze as they take on the RS:X World Championships - one of the last major events before Tokyo 2020. Squires is known for excelling in strong winds, and that's just what the 46 male and 30 female athletes have in store over the course of the five-day regatta. The current forecast in Cadiz, Spain, suggests winds could hit more than 30 knots at times as the best of the best battle it out to go into the Olympics as world champions s...

Amy Seabright and James Taylor © Uros Kekus Kleva Amy Seabright and James Taylor won bronze in the first ever mixed 470 World Championships - as Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre narrowly missed out on a podium spot following an epic comeback in the women's fleet. Seabright and Taylor notched up five top-five finishes on their way to securing their podium spot in the new 470 class format for the Paris 2024 Olympics. At the midway point they even led the regatta in Vilamoura, Portugal, but were overtaken by eventual winners Gil Cohen and Noam Homri from Israel going into the ten-bo...

Saturday, July 24 Adam Peaty begins the defence of his men's 100m breaststroke title in Saturday's heats session Credit: JULIAN SIMMONDS 23:30-07:30 First gold medal of the Games will be won in the women’s 10m air rifle - features Seonaid McIntosh 01:15-03:25 - 3x3 Basketball makes its Olympics debut with women and men's pool games 02:00-09:15 Men’s cycling road race - likely to feature Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas 02:00-11:00 Tennis singles and doubles first round - could feature Andy Murray 09:30-13:15 Hockey: Great Britain men's team play their first pool B match against South ...

Charlotte Dobson and Saskia Tidey: 49erFX (Women’s Skiff) Sixth at her first Olympics, Dobson has partnered up with Tidey who previously represented Ireland at Rio 2016. Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell: 49er (Men’s Skiff) London 2012 silver medallist Bithell and Fletcher have won world and European gold together. John Gimson and Anna Burnet: Nacra 17 (Mixed Multihull) Gimson will compete at his fourth Olympics, while Burnet, the niece of great New Zealand yachtsman Sir Peter Blake, will make her Games debut. Elliot Hanson: Laser (Men’s One Person Dinghy) After being hampered by two ...