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International sailing races began in 1851, when members of the New York Yacht Club decided to take part in a competition in England. To compete, they built a 101‑foot schooner named America, sailed to England and won a trophy called the Hundred Guineas Cup. The trophy was then renamed The America’s Cup in memory of this first international sailing competition.

Brief overview of the rules

Sailing involves moving a boat solely by harnessing the power of the wind. Mastery over ever‑changing conditions requires both great skill and experience on the part of the athletes. In Olympic events, the rules of the international sailing federation, World Sailing, apply. Competitions are made up of fleet racing, where two equally-matched boats race around the same varied course. 

There were ten events at the Tokyo Games, including windsurfing, mixed Nacra 17 Foiling, 49ers and the 470. The various sailing disciplines are constantly changing and the boats allowed to compete are designed to be increasingly small and lightweight, placing ever greater demands on both the athletic and technical capacities of the sailors. Two new events will take place for the first time in the Olympic Games in 2024 : windsurfer – iQFoil and kiteboarding.

Olympic history

Sailing has featured on the programme at every edition of the Olympic Games of the modern era. They could not take place on 1 st  April 1896 in Athens, however, as bad weather conditions forced the organisers to cancel the events. The first competitions therefore took place at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900. Since then, the categories included in the competition have constantly evolved. The different events are organised by monotype classes – i.e. their size and weight.

Events in 2024

The sailing events will take place between the 28th of July and the 8th of August.

• Women’s : One Person Dinghy – Skiff – Windsurfing – Kite.
• Men’s : One Person Dinghy – Skiff – Windsurfing – Kite.
• Mixed : Mixed Multihull – Mixed Two Person Dinghy.

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As a competitive sport, sailing was called yachting until the 21st century. The international federation, now World Sailing , changed the sport’s competitive name in an attempt to limit the elitist connotation associated with the term “yachting”. The sport has been termed yachting at the Olympics through 1996 , and sailing, in effect, made its Olympic début at Sydney 2000.

Yachting actually began as a form of sailing, which has been practiced since antiquity as a means of transport. In the modern sense, yachting probably originated in the Netherlands , and the word seems to come from the Dutch “jacht” (for hunting), which was originally used for fast, light ships.

Sailing as a sport was brought to England by King Charles II about 1660, after his exile to Holland. International yacht racing began in 1851, when a syndicate of members of the New York Yacht Club built a 101-foot schooner named America. The yacht was sailed to England, where it won a trophy called the Hundred Guineas Cup, in a race around the Isle of Wight under the auspices of the Royal Yacht Squadron. The trophy was renamed The America’s Cup after the yacht, not after the United States , as is commonly thought.

As aforementioned, sailing has been governed worldwide by World Sailing (WS), formerly the International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU), and even before as the International Sailing Federation (ISAF), which was formed on 14 October 1907, in Paris. As of 2022, WS has 148 member nations.

Sailing was first contested at the 1900 Olympic Games . It made its next Olympic appearance in 1908 and has been on every Olympic Program since that year. Sailing has had a very varied program that is usually changed every few Olympiads as the popularity of various boats waxes and wanes. Women have always been allowed to compete in Olympic sailing with men, and the first woman to compete in the Olympics was a sailor, in 1900. In 1988 , separate sailing events exclusively for women were introduced. In 1984, the popular sport of boardsailing was also added to the Olympic Program, and a separate boardsailing event for women was placed on the program for the first time in 1992.

The current sailing program has events for both men, women, and open crews. The classes fit into certain categories, including a windsurfing class, one-person dinghies, two-person dinghies, heavyweight dinghies, skiffs, and multihull boats. However, the exact type of boat within these categories may now vary from Olympics to Olympics.

Sailing is contested at the Olympics in a series of fleet races, with points awarded for the placement in each race. In 2008 , the so-called Medal Race was added to make the sport more suitable for television: these races feature only the top 10 boats, and take only 30 minutes.

The medal table is topped by Great Britain (30 golds, 63 medals), followed by the United States (19 golds, 61 medals) and France (17 golds, 51 medals). British sailor Ben Ainslie and Paul Elvstrøm ( DEN ) lead the men’s medal table, both with four gold medals. Ainslie has won a total of five medals at the Olympic Games, just as Brazilian sailors Robert Scheidt and Torben Grael . Seven women have won two gold medals, led by British Hannah Mills , who won a silver before her two Olympic titles. Windsurfer Alessandra Sensini , of Italy , is the female sailor with the most medals, with a total of four.

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Sailing at the Paris Olympics will be contested from July 28 to August 8. 

Where is sailing being held at the Paris Olympics?

Sailing will take place at the Marseille Marina, located in the city of Marseille on the Mediterranean Sea. The water conditions off the coast of Marseille make it an idea location for the sailing events. 

The marina will be adapted to be able to host a competition on the scale of the Olympic Games, including training facilities that will be restructured for people with all skill levels in sailing. 

How big is the Marseille Marina?

The Marseille Marina has a capacity of 12,262 people for the Olympics.

How much will tickets cost?

Tickets for sailing at the Paris Olympics will cost 24 Euros (approximately $26 USD) at face value.

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LONDON : Swiss SailGP Team's Sebastien Schneiter is stepping away from the helm for the rest of this season to focus on winning an Olympic medal in sailing's 49er class with Arno de Planta.

Geneva-based Schneiter said he had handed the wheel of the Swiss F50 foiling catamaran to veteran co-driver Nathan Outteridge for the rest of SailGP's fourth season.

"It's the best decision for Swiss SailGP Team and for my goal of winning an Olympic medal for Switzerland," Schneiter said ahead of this weekend's New Zealand SailGP.

In a packed year for some of the world's top sailors the SailGP season culminates in a $2 million winner-takes-all grand final in San Francisco in July, just weeks before the start of the Paris 2024 Games.

"For the past 10 years I've been working towards this moment and this summer, with the Olympics in Marseille, I feel that this dream can become realistic if we keep working hard," Schneiter said in a statement on SailGP's website.

Schneiter said that despite finishing this month's 49er World Championship in Lanzarote in sixth place, the early stages of the event had not gone as planned for the Swiss pair.

"Having a little challenge and not achieving our goals has allowed us to reflect and change our approaches, which has made us come out of it stronger," he added.

After the Olympics, the sailing world's focus will switch to New Zealand's defence of the 37th America's Cup in Barcelona. Racing begins in late August and runs until October and includes the first women's event, as well as a youth competition.

Britain's Ben Ainslie handed the helm of his SailGP F50 to double Olympic gold medallist Giles Scott in January so that he could concentrate on his role as skipper of INEOS Britannia, the British challenger for the America's Cup.

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Sailing has a long history in the Olympic Games.

The sport made its debut in 1900 and with the exception of 1904 it has appeared at every Olympic Games since then.

The sport’s name was changed from ‘Yachting’ to ‘Sailing’ at the Sydney 2000 Games.  They won their first medal in Moscow in 1980, a silver in the Flying Dutchman discipline with the team of David Wilkins and Jamie Wilkinson.  Most recently Analise Murphy won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in the Laser Radial.

The Irish Sailing Association or ‘Irish Sailing’ is the national governing body for sailing, powerboating and windsurfing, and the international organisation is the International Sailing Federation.

The aim of Irish Sailing is to develop, support and promote sailing, through the core values of Inspiration, Representation and Participation.  In 2018 they established a Sailing Centre of Excellence at Dun Laoghaire which serves as an administrative and training base for their high performance programme and supports Olympic sailing.

Olympic Sailing features a variety of craft, from dinghies and keelboats to windsurfing boards.

Event Programme:

RS:X – Windsurfer (Men/Women) Laser – One Person Dinghy (Men) Laser Radial – One Person Dinghy (Women) Finn – One Person Dinghy (Heavyweight) (Men) 470 – Two Person Dinghy (Men/Women) 49er – Skiff (Men) 49er FX – Skiff (Women) Nacra 17 Foiling – Mixed Multihull

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Doping rules, legal challenges and endless appeals have left some medalists waiting (and waiting) for their golds.

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It took Lashinda Demus of the United States 52.77 seconds to run the women’s 400-meter hurdles at the 2012 London Olympics. It took more than a decade for her to be upgraded to first place from second . A year after that decision, and 12 years after the race, she is still waiting to receive her gold medal.

One of her American teammates, Erik Kynard Jr., competed in the high jump at the London Games. Like Demus, he was beaten by a Russian athlete later found guilty of doping. And like Demus, he had to wait many years before being named the victor . He, too, has never touched his gold medal.

Demus and Kynard are expected to finally receive their medals this summer during the Paris Olympics, according to officials at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee. The details are still being ironed out; officials hope a resolution could come soon.

But for nine American figure skaters who in January were elevated to first place in the team competition nearly two years after the end of the 2022 Beijing Olympics , the wait continues: The Russian team that finished ahead of them in Beijing, and later became embroiled in a doping case, has filed multiple appeals challenging the loss of its gold medals. That could mean months, at least, of new legal battles .

All three cases have highlighted longstanding concerns about the inability of international sports officials to balance the imperatives of clean sport and fair play with providing justice to deserving athletes in a timely manner. The reasons are varied — vulnerabilities in testing; a lack of uniform international commitment in the antidoping system; an often lengthy appeals process — but the consequences are personal.

Dozens of competitors have received their gold, silver and bronze medals long after their Olympic moment has passed. Some, like Demus, 41, and Kynard, 33, retired from competition before getting a resolution. Others have eventually celebrated what should have been a career highlight with something more akin to a shrug.

“It makes the I.O.C. look really bad,” said Bill Mallon, an Olympic historian who tracks the reallocation of medals. “In the N.B.A. and the N.F.L., when the game ends, you know who won.”

A year seems more reasonable to resolve doping cases and reallocate medals, Kynard said in an interview, “but not 12.”

During his ordeal, Kynard said, his faith and trust in the Olympic movement have fallen “lower and lower.” But he also said he had learned not to define himself by the outcome of a sporting event. He laughed at one point and said there was one consolation to waiting for his gold medal: “I look forward to giving my youngest son a new teething toy.”

The reception of a deferred medal can confirm an athlete’s sense of integrity, and bring some inner peace. But the waiting can also cause mental stress and, for gold medalists in particular, a significant loss of financial opportunities.

Kynard estimated that he had lost out on at least $500,000 in potential prize money, sponsorships and appearance fees that he might have claimed as an Olympic champion. Twelve years later, he said, the meaning of a gold medal feels diminished, “like a participation trophy.”

Belated medals have often been delivered quietly, and sometimes with little dignity. Adam Nelson, who was declared the winner of the shot put competition at the 2004 Athens Olympics after the apparent victor was disqualified for doping, received his gold medal nine years later outside a Burger King in the Atlanta airport .

Nelson said the anticlimax of receiving his medal at an airport rather than at the site of the competition in Olympia, Greece, the hallowed home of the ancient Games, filled him not with joy but rather “a real sense of loss.”

Demus, now a high school track coach, did not respond to requests for comment. Last year, upon finally being declared the 2012 hurdles champion, she expressed mixed emotions. In an email to NBC Sports, she wrote that users of banned drugs should be stripped of their medals — and added that she would not want any other athlete to experience the loss that she did in terms of “the official title, medal, recognition and missed compensation that goes with it all.”

Since drug screenings began at the Olympics in 1968, there have been 164 events in which medals have been reallocated or withdrawn, according to Mallon, the Olympic historian.

Perhaps most notoriously, six of the top seven finishers in the men’s 94 kilogram (roughly 207 pounds) weight lifting competition at the London Olympics — including all three original medalists — were later disqualified for doping. The eventual winner was Saeid Mohammadpour , an Iranian who finished fifth in the initial results.

Antidoping officials are often a step behind in an endless game of pharmacological cat-and-mouse with athletes who use banned substances and blood-boosting agents. To enhance the efficacy of drug testing, blood and urine samples can be stored and retested for up to 10 years as more cutting-edge detection technology is developed.

(In 2022, when he was retired from elite competition, Kynard accepted a six-month ban sparked by a post on social media showing him using an intravenous saline infusion — which can aid in recuperation — beyond a permitted volume. The infusion contained no prohibited substances, United States antidoping officials said, but the violation still required a punishment.)

Even brief delays can see competitors miss out on every Olympic athlete’s dream: to stand atop a podium at the Games, to see their flag raised, to hear their national anthem played.

“When the systems fail you and you get slighted, there’s no adequate replacements for it,” said Nelson, now a high school athletic director. “In the Olympic cycle, it happens once every four years. There’s nothing you can do to go back and rewrite that history. That moment has passed.”

Since 2018, the I.O.C. and sports governing bodies have sought more decorous ways to present deferred medals. The sites in Paris being considered as possible venues for Demus and Kynard to receive their gold medals include the Olympic Stadium, where the track and field competition will be held, and a park at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, where all medalists will be invited to celebrate among family, friends and thousands of spectators.

Kynard said the Olympic Stadium seemed a less likely choice because it would probably be embarrassing for the I.O.C. to so publicly acknowledge “how bad this got screwed up.” The I.O.C. said that it seeks to resolve such situations in a dignified manner by giving athletes options that attempt to “best meet their preferences.”

If the figure-skating appeals process from the 2022 Beijing Olympics is completed in time for the Paris Games, which remains uncertain, the nine American skaters could be awarded their gold medals during the closing ceremony.

Madison Chock, 31, an ice dancer with her husband, Evan Bates, 35, said on a teleconference call in January that they have experienced “a small underlying feeling of maybe a little bit of sadness and disappointment that we didn’t get that Olympic moment.”

Sarah Hirshland, the chief executive of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, said that protecting the integrity of sports should be the highest priority. But she also described the long wait for redress by Demus and Kynard as “terrible” and “unacceptable.”

“We have a chance to try to make it right,” she said, “and that’s what we have to do.”

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Nevin Harrison, who in Tokyo became the first U.S. woman to win Olympic canoe or kayak gold, qualified to defend her title in Paris.

Harrison, a 21-year-old Seattle native, won the U.S. Olympic Trials C-1 200m sprint in Sacramento, California, on Friday.

She became the first American to qualify for the Paris Games in any canoe or kayak event. More can join her later this spring.

Harrison won a second world title in 2022 and placed fourth at worlds last August, two months after suffering a back injury that kept her in bed for a week and out of the water for a month.

“I thought that if I won a gold medal (at the Tokyo Olympics), my life would be a fairy tale, rainbow magical adventure land, and that wasn’t the case,” Harrison told the NBC affiliate in Seattle in an interview published in February. “It actually got (a) hell of a lot harder.”

Harrison, who matriculated at San Diego State after Tokyo, said in that interview that she regained motivation after a hard time trying to enjoy the sport in the two years after her Olympic triumph.

“I’m the underdog again, I guess,” she said. “They think I fell back, but they’re not ready.”

NBC Olympic research contributed to this report.

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Sailing-Schneiter hands Outteridge Swiss SailGP helm to focus on Olympics

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Last Updated: March 23, 2024, 00:01 IST

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Swiss SailGP Team's Sebastien Schneiter is stepping away from the helm for the rest of this season to focus on winning an Olympic medal in sailing's 49er class with Arno de Planta.

LONDON: Swiss SailGP Team’s Sebastien Schneiter is stepping away from the helm for the rest of this season to focus on winning an Olympic medal in sailing’s 49er class with Arno de Planta.

Geneva-based Schneiter said he had handed the wheel of the Swiss F50 foiling catamaran to veteran co-driver Nathan Outteridge for the rest of SailGP’s fourth season.

“It’s the best decision for Swiss SailGP Team and for my goal of winning an Olympic medal for Switzerland,” Schneiter said ahead of this weekend’s New Zealand SailGP.

In a packed year for some of the world’s top sailors the SailGP season culminates in a $2 million winner-takes-all grand final in San Francisco in July, just weeks before the start of the Paris 2024 Games.

“For the past 10 years I’ve been working towards this moment and this summer, with the Olympics in Marseille, I feel that this dream can become realistic if we keep working hard,” Schneiter said in a statement on SailGP’s website.

Schneiter said that despite finishing this month’s 49er World Championship in Lanzarote in sixth place, the early stages of the event had not gone as planned for the Swiss pair.

“Having a little challenge and not achieving our goals has allowed us to reflect and change our approaches, which has made us come out of it stronger,” he added.

After the Olympics, the sailing world’s focus will switch to New Zealand’s defence of the 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona. Racing begins in late August and runs until October and includes the first women’s event, as well as a youth competition.

Britain’s Ben Ainslie handed the helm of his SailGP F50 to double Olympic gold medallist Giles Scott in January so that he could concentrate on his role as skipper of INEOS Britannia, the British challenger for the America’s Cup.

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