Paul Cayard
The Olympics
The AmericaOne Foundation has been deeply committed to supporting USA sailor-athletes for 18 years, to date contributing more than $6million to various US Sailing programmes. AmericaOne recently stepped up to better carry on the mission, reorganising itself to become a fully functioning operating entity.
Great coaches and passionate donors have joined forces at
AmericaOne and together we are directly supporting USA athletes, helping them continue the pursuit of their dreams. In our first quarter we have provided over 150 coaching-days and direct financial support to 18 athletes. We are expanding this support as our athletes continue their march toward Paris in 2024, LA 2028 and beyond. Following the important events of this summer, the Olympic Test
Event and the combined World Championships, the focus in the USA will shift to training for the PanAmerican Games in Chile, and our first domestic Olympic trials in 16 years. Having domestic trials in the USA is a great opportunity, and a key ingredient in our effort to build the type of strong domestic programme that can really improve efficiency in training and development. US Olympic selection trials will be held in Miami in January and
February of 2024. The trials will be held in two groups, with the ILCAs in February to fit their international schedule and the other classes in January. A few benefits of domestic trials:
l 120 USA competitors across all classes instead of 20 competitors at foreign venues. l Winning a single sudden-death regatta to qualify for a single sudden-death Olympics. l USA athletes all compete to win at other events every year.
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l Inspires the next generation, who are able to attend and feel the Olympic spirit. In the FX and Nacra classes domestic fleets in the USA are not
mature enough to host a domestic trial so they will still use foreign regattas to select their representatives for 2024. But our goal is to be in a position to run domestic trials for all Olympic classes for LA 2028. AmericaOne will be providing strong support this autumn to help a broad group of athletes leverage this opportunity.
The Ocean Race I recently attended the grande finale in Genoa of The Ocean Race. We had a ‘Legends’ Race, an In-Port Race and the final prizegiving gala. Both races were seriously wind-challenged. In the Legends regatta I sailed on Taranga, a competitor in the
first Whitbread in 1973. She is a Swan 55 and wasn’t a great performer in 2kt of wind! I did get to sail on Malizia in the In-Port Race, a great opportunity to see first-hand what complex machines the Imocas have become. Once getting over the guilt of just being dead weight in a very light-air race, I enjoyed watching Boris Herrmann and his team manage the boat around the shortened racecourse. We never got close to foiling so that was a shame. I was asked several times to compare my experiences in 1997
and 2005 to what I saw in this edition. I avoided the request to compare. Rather, I offered that the world will always change, and nothing successful will remain the same. I am grateful that I went around the world when I did, on the boats
I sailed, with the great teams I was lucky to be part of. I think the common denominator to success in this race is the team. There are so many facets that require competence that there is a small army of hardworking people, on the water and ashore,
VAN DER BORCH
ALAMY
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