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Qingdao, China - August 17, 2008 - Qingdao produced a high-energy action-packed race course for the Yngling Medal Course today, just outside the breakwater to the Olympic Harbor. Our race for the Bronze Medal started with high expectations but we finished the regatta seventh overall after a collision with one mark, nearly hitting another, and getting yellow-flagged for kinetics.
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We'd like to show you the official results and official photographs from Qingdao but that isn't permitted under the IOC guidelines. However, we can provide you with the links.
For results go to http://www.sailing.org/olympics/resultscentre.php and click on Yngling Women in the left-hand column. This site will also let you follow leg-by-leg results during each race.
Looking for photos? Watch a slideshows of action photos in the archive. For Medal Race go to http://www.sailing.org/olympics/news/24754.php. For pix from Day One to Day Five, go to http://www.sailing.org/olympics/news/24681.php. There is also a slide show at the US Sailing site.
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Qingdao, China - August 15, 2008 - Tomorrow is the Medal Race for the Yngling Class and we’ll be shooting to finish our Olympic campaign with a podium place and a Bronze Medal. Our high hopes for a Gold medal evaporated today, along with Qingdao’s notoriously unpredictable winds, which delivered breeze for only one race instead of the three scheduled.
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Qingdao, China - August 13, 2008 - After a day away from racing yesterday we came back to the race course off Qingdao today with renewed purpose and nailed a solid first place in light shifty conditions in what turned out to be our only race of the day. It felt real good. We now have a good grasp on third place overall, eight points ahead of the fourth-placed boat.
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Qingdao, China - August 11, 2008 - After two more races today we are at the halfway point of our Olympic Games and we’re tied for third overall, although the tie-breaker puts us in fourth place. We are 16 points behind the leaders but there are a lot of races ahead of us, including the double-points Medal Race.
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Qingdao, China - August 10, 2008 - We had a great conditions for sailing today. We could not have been luckier with the Qingdao weather, with blue skies, an open ocean course, and breeze that ranged between five and nine knots and averaged around eight knots. Consistency
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Qingdao, China - August 9, 2008 - We hope you enjoyed the fantastic Olympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing. If you looked for us in the parade of athletes and didn’t see us, it’s because Team 7 wasn’t there. We watched it on television like you. Most of the US Team flew to Beijing on
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Qingdao, China - August 1, 2008 - The final phase of our Olympic Journey began in San Jose, California last weekend as we joined other athletes from Team USA and our fellow sailors in the US Sailing Team for final processing and briefings before leaving for China. We all stayed in the dormitories at San Jose State University while we completed all
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