Robert Scheidt was derigging his wife's Laser Radial at Hyeres Olympic Regatta when SailJuice caught up with the four-time Olympic medallist. Since taking the silver medal in the Star in Qingdao 2008, the Brazilian maestro has got married to Gintare, an Olympic silver medallist in her own right, and together they have had a son, Eric...
"The medal race you generally have to pick one side or the other because there’s fewer boats and you’ve got to make sure you’re on the right side of it. It’s a bit harder with the medal race, but still, there’s no point just sending it out into a corner if you’re not sure that that’s going to work." Ben Ainslie continues his interview with SailJuice...
Skandia Sail for Gold 2011 is crunch time for many sailors, the strong British Finn squad included. Ben Ainslie is the favourite, but the three-time Olympic Champion has never had it so tough trying to beat his fellow Brits, Giles Scott and reigning World Champ Ed Wright among them....
Ask Giles Scott what his goal is, and he'll tell you. "The aim is to qualify for the Olympics and to go on and win gold." Already by the end of 2009, his first full season in the Finn class, the then 22-year-old had proven that he's a world class talent. Indeed he has been highlighted as one of the Daily Mail's ‘Magnificent Seven' athletes whom the newspaper is following in the build up to London 2012.
In just 12 months Stuart Bithell's career has gone from a little known Olympic journeyman to one of the world's top 470 crews, Merlin Rocket National Champion helmsman, and Champion of Champions on the British dinghy scene after winning the Endeavour Trophy...
Nick Dewhirst has been a thorn in the side of ISAF these past few years, leading a global charge to get the multihull back into the Olympic Regatta for Rio 2016. In the build-up to the ISAF Annual Conference in Athens, Nick says why he thinks the multihull will be invited back in from the cold and back into the bosom of Olympic sailing...
Phil Jones has been telling SailJuice about the radical recommendations by ISAF's Olympic Commission for the future of Olympic Sailing. For anyone who desires the status quo, the Olympic Commission's report won't make for comfortable reading. But if sailing is to survive and thrive as an Olympic sport, then ISAF and the politicians really need to sit up and take note of Jones's team's findings....
The last few years have seen Rob Greenhalgh make a successful transition from skiff world champion to one of the most sought-after offshore racers. The Brit has a busy season ahead, skippering an Oman Sail entry in the Tour Voile and still squeezing in some 14 and 18-foot skiff racing. Although he couldn't say at the time of the interview, he has since been confirmed as rejoining Puma Racing for the American team's second assault on the Volvo Ocean Race...
Lucy Mcgregor learned her trade crewing for Shirley Robertson in the Yngling during the build-up to the last Olympics. Sarah Ayton's team ended up winning the Olympic slot for Great Britain, but now Mcgregor is back on the Olympic campaign trail, this time as skipper of her own match race campaign. SailJuice spoke to Mcgregor at the European Match Racing Championships in Denmark, and the World ranked No.3 sailor tells what she learned from sailing with a double Olympic Champion and also looks forward to the next three years until Weymouth 2012...