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One Race To Win A Gold Medal…
The Notice of Race, the primary document, has been published for this summer’s Olympic regatta in Qingdao.

And yes, catastrophe is contemplated as one - yes, only one - race will be sufficient to constitute a series.

The programme contemplates the normal format for the Olympic classes, a total of 11 races including the double-points Medal Race finale. Or in the exception of the 49er, 16 races.

For those inside the Olympic sailing bubble the radical one race provision is no surprise. The Notice for last summer’s Test Event included this rule, tacit admission that the wind in this part of the Yellow Sea is not the best… Qingdao is highly unlikely to produce a great sailing event. Light winds and a couple of knots of current sluicing along the coast will see to that. August is not the optimum time for this stretch of coast apparently and neither is Qingdao the best place on China’s gigantic coastline for sailing.

So let’s be hopeful that 2008 runs with comparable satisfaction as the last two years. And accept that the one race provision in the Notice of Race contemplates something so awful only because it’s someone’s job to provide for the worst that could happen. — Tim Jeffery in his Telegraph blog, full article at blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/timjeffery/

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