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MOD70 Argo claims line honours with new Atlantic record
SailGP might be grabbing headlines this week, but out on the open Atlantic, offshore racing has just delivered something equally spectacular. Jason Carroll's MOD70 trimaran Argo has stormed across the finish line in Antigua to...
Artemis looking sharp for Perth debut
Dangerous though it may be to draw too many conclusions from practice racing, Sweden’s new Artemis SailGP team were looking match-fit on Friday afternoon ahead of their series debut in Perth this weekend. Nathan Outteridge and...
Spanish team crash out of Perth
The Spanish team is out of the first grand prix of the 2026 SailGP season before competition has even got going. Los Gallos suffered major structural damage to their F50 catamaran, for reasons yet to be determined. Driver Diego...
The Great Reshuffle: How SailGP's first transfer window has shaken the league up
We’re just two days out from the start of Season 6 in Perth, where the Fremantle Doctor – that notorious afternoon sea breeze – will punish any team still finding its rhythm. And there'll be plenty of them. 21 athletes changed...
Sardinia finally gets its America's Cup moment
After years of near-misses and political fumbles, Sardinia has finally locked in an America's Cup regatta. The opening preliminary event of the 38th America's Cup cycle will take place on the Italian island, marking the first...
Podcast Ep. 2 - Inside SailGP Season 6
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms What can we expect in SailGP Season 6? The championship that crowned eight different winners in 12 events last season is already back – and this time, there are 13 teams...
New Artemis team takes flight in SailGP practice
The first day of SailGP practice in 2026 has been more than anyone would have wanted. After the soft breeze of Abu Dhabi, Perth has delivered more than enough wind and waves to remind the sailors just how dangerous these foiling...
SailGP returns to Geneva in place of Saint-Tropez
SailGP has confirmed Geneva's return for a second consecutive year as the 11th of 13 rounds this season, locking in the lakeside venue for 19-20 September 2026. It's a vote of confidence after the Swiss city's debut last...
Freddie Carr: What I can’t wait to see in 2026
Thank goodness for SailGP. In a sporting world that often treats calendars like state secrets, SailGP does something refreshingly simple: it tells the fans what’s coming, and it does so early. Established teams, a format people...
The Foil Weekly Wrap - 12 Jan '26
The new year kicks off with the America's Cup world in flux, SailGP heading Down Under for its most competitive season yet, and the offshore racing calendar firing up with a transatlantic dash. From match racing's most decorated...
Why our sport can't get enough of SailGP
If there’s one thing that’s always been missing from sailing, it’s continuity. The Olympics, the Vendée Globe, The Ocean Race, all run to a four-year cycle. The America’s Cup? Well, who knows? It runs to its own clock. SailGP is...
Podcast Ep. 1 - What happened in SailGP Season 5?
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms Eight different event winners. Twelve teams separated by margins that would have been unthinkable two seasons ago. The SailGP fleet is levelling up, and the stats are there to...
Time to meddle with the medal race format
Good riddance to the Medal Race. It was an awful fudge of a format for deciding Olympic medals. It really didn’t achieve much compared with a standard low-points scoring system that the majority of us recreational sailors use for...
The Foil Weekly Wrap - 5 Jan '26
From a record-breaking bid in Shenzhen to a rule breach that rewrote Sydney-Hobart history, the first week of 2026 has given us plenty to talk about. We've also got grassroots foiling making waves in Naples, potentially 250 boats...
The Foil Weekly Wrap - 29 Dec '25
It may be the festive season, but still the sailing world keeps turning. A supermaxi showdown in one of the sport's most brutal Sydney-Hobarts in years, Ben Ainslie finally securing the financial lifeline his America's Cup...
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Build-up to LA2028
The Olympic sailing programme for the Los Angeles 2028 Games has a lot of similarities with Paris 2024. The same 10 events stay the same from 2024, although the hope and expectation is that the weather will be much kinder than...
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Olympic History
Olympic Sailing is one of the oldest sports on the modern Olympic programme. Originally known as Yachting until the Sydney 2000 Games, the sport’s Olympic history reflects the evolution of sailing itself, transitioning from a...
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