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Flying Roos bounce to third win of 2026 in Bermuda
Australia completed a second consecutive SailGP event victory in Bermuda on Sunday. Tom Slingsby's Flying Roos led the event final from start to finish to claim the Aussies’ third win of season six. In conditions lighter than...
Ashby breaks leg as bad luck strikes again for France
DS Automobiles Team France wing trimmer Glenn Ashby suffered a badly broken leg in a fall ahead of the start of race two at the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix on Saturday. The Australian, 48, lost his footing crossing the French F50’s...
Flying Roos and Los Gallos co-lead after a sensational Saturday in Bermuda
The Flying Roos carried on their blistering form, picking up two out of four race wins in champagne sailing conditions on The Great Sound. Closely matched were Spain’s Los Gallos, who played a more consistent game, placing in the...
Spain on a roll, GBR back in business – the early read from Bermuda SailGP
Practice day on the Great Sound delivered the kind of conditions everyone had been hoping for – flat water, breeze gusting around 20 knots, small wings fitted, and enough action to see how this weekend could play out. With the...
Podcast: Inside Bermuda SailGP, Gitana 18 & Olympic choices
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms SailGP returns to Bermuda's Great Sound this weekend for the fifth event of season 6. For episode 18 of The Foil Podcast, Neil Cole, Andy Rice and Freddie Carr serve up...
Ineos vs Athena: What we’ve learnt so far
It’s all too real, and it’s a dispute that won’t be drifting away quietly on the wind. That much is evident after viewing court papers filed in April by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos group against Sir Ben Ainslie’s Athena Racing...
Five things to know ahead of SailGP round five in Bermuda
The SailGP circus rolls into Bermuda for the fifth round of season six, returning to The Great Sound for the fourth time in the league’s history on 9-10 May. Fresh off Rio’s debut at hosting the league, the fleet arrives in...
Freddie Carr's season preview: 52 Super Series 2026
This season’s 52 Super Series delivers its biggest and most competitive fleet to date. 14 boats line up for the opening regatta in Puerto Portals, with two more teams expected to join later in the season. Representing 11 nations...
The Foil Weekly Wrap - 4 May '26
It's been a busy week off the water... Court documents have peeled back the cover on the Ineos v Athena dispute, the Australian AC38 challenge all but slipped out into the open, and Paul Cayard adds another prize to a year...
Tapper dominates debut Congressional Cup final to secure first Crimson Blazer
At just 23, Cole Tapper claimed his first Crimson Blazer in Long Beach with a performance that outclassed competitors who boast decades of experience to their names. In what is only his third Congressional Cup appearance, the...
Rising Stars: Nathan Berger, the 17-year-old wingfoiler beating his heroes
This is the first in our Rising Stars series, on the young athletes in sailing and foiling who are making the rest of the field sit up and take notice. Last week in Leucate, at the season-opening stop of the GWA Wing Foil World...
Podcast Ep. 17 - New signings, last challenger leaked & the design stables reshaping AC38
Click here to listen on Spotify and other platforms New alliances, new signings, and a secret that slipped out… In episode 17, Andy Rice, Freddie Carr and Neil Cole dig into the detail of how AC38 is playing out. Paul Goodison...
Why sailing’s Crimson Blazer deserves more attention
The ‘Crimson Blazer’ sounds like the costume of a villain from a superhero film – but it’s not. It’s arguably much cooler, and you might not have heard of it. What the Masters Green Jacket is to golf, the Crimson Blazer is to...
Freddie Carr: Reliving the greatest America’s Cup race
Having just stepped off an extraordinary three days aboard Rainbow, it felt like being transported back to a different era of the sport – one where sailing was defined by feel, physicality and pure mechanics. The kind of sailing...
Scott takes director role at American Challenger for AC38
The announcement today that American Racing Challenger Team USA has brought in Giles Scott to take up management role at the new America's Cup outfit is a genuinely outstanding hire. I’ve raced in the past four America’s Cups...
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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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