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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...
Freddie Carr: Why I love this sport
So, here it is: my first column as a senior contributor and pundit for The Foil. This is the start of something new for me on a personal level, but more importantly for the sport I love. The Foil promises to be a great adventure.
The Foil Weekly Wrap - 22 Dec '25
Three more teams pile into the America's Cup, Italy's youth sailors keep dominating, Thailand delivers a royal gold medal, and the Sydney-Hobart fleet is stacked – even if the breeze isn't. As Europe hunkers down for winter, the...
Did SailGP dodge a bullet in Abu Dhabi?
The Yas Marina Circuit is considered to be one of the most boring on the Formula One calendar. Yet Abu Dhabi’s race track played host to one of the most interesting conclusions of an F1 Championship in recent years. The tactical...
The Foil Weekly Wrap - 15 Dec '25
While the SailGP circus takes its winter break and the America's Cup teams hunker down in design offices, the racing never really stops. It just moves to different waters, different boats, and sometimes a different era entirely…...
7 things we learned in the SailGP Abu Dhabi Grand Final
Great Britain arrived in Abu Dhabi as favourites on paper, tripped over their own shoelaces on Saturday, then came from the back of the three-boat Grand Final to win the race that mattered and collect their first ever SailGP...
Sir Ben Ainslie on winning SailGP
Sir Ben Ainslie tells The Foil about how much it means for his Emirates GBR team to win the 2025 SailGP championship – and describes “the killer move” JK tack that made the difference in the Grand Final. Freddie Carr, who...
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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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