ILCA Sailing Articles
Once You Launch, Forget the Friendships
Richard Aspland looks at the friendship and rivalry of three exceptional Laser sailors – Pavlos Kontides [CYP], Karl Martin Rammo [EST] and Tonci Stipanovic [CRO]. When you walk around the boat park on the morning of any Olympic sailing event it’s not uncommon to see sailors talking, laughing, enjoying a coffee or sharing some food….
Continental Qualifiers a Hit in Africa and Asia
Jeff Martin looks at how the new country qualification criteria for the 2016 Olympic Games has led to two successful events! The International Olympic Committee introduced a new country qualification criteria for sailing at the 2016 Olympic Games – one of the three qualification events must be a continental qualifier. In the Laser and Laser…
2015 President’s Report
The 2015 ILCA World Council meeting was held at the end of October in Dallas, Texas, USA where a large range of topics were discussed during the two days of meetings. Thanks in large part to the very productive Technical and Measurement Committee held just prior the World Council meeting, we were able to give…