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The new ISAF Olympic Games microsite will provide an online home for the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition and get closer than ever to the action over 8-24 August as 400 sailors compete across 11 events. Visitors to http://www.sailing.org/olympics/Olympicshome.php will find comprehensive coverage of the Olympic sailing events including live mark-by-mark roundings and results from every race, daily galleries featuring the best photography from the Games, full details on every competing sailor, nations and event, a complete database of Olympic sailing results and all the latest news and features direct from Qingdao. Details on all 400 sailors and 62 nations competing will be updated daily with comprehensive previews for each of the 11 Olympic sailing events. Fans can also discover more on the 'behind the scenes' stories that make the Olympic Games such a unique sporting event, whilst those new to the sport can read ISAF's simple guide to sailing. For the media, there is quick and easy access to all the essential details in the no-frills media centre.

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July 2008 News and Views - 101st Edition
With the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games looming up in August we have four advertising spots available on the XXIX Olympiad - AY Race Reports to be generated during the 14-day sailing competition in Qingdao, China. We have also revised our Advertising Rates on the rotating banners, News & Views advertising spots and Shopping Mall. For full details goto: http://asianyachting.com/Mall/Advertising.htm for some "Good value for money" advertising working for you 24 hours, seven days a week.
Safe and happy sailing
Capt. Marty Rijkuris

2. AUSTRAL - ASIAN NEWS - (See Photo Gallery)

2.8 China removes algae from Olympic sailing venue
China has called in thousands of people to clean up an algal bloom at the sailing venue for this summer's Olympic Games. The blue-green algae blossomed around June 1 in the waters around Qingdao on the coast of Shandong province, and some 400 boats and 3,000 people have been mobilized to clean it up. Chinese news photos showed the bright-green bloom along the shores of downtown Qingdao. (See Photo Gallery) Other images showed workers loading the algae onto boats as windsurfers sailed in the background. The photos also showed people wading in the water and scooping up armfuls of the plant-like organism and putting it into white sacks. Blue-green algae blooms when nutrients, sometimes caused by excessive pollution, build up in water. The country's three-decade economic boom has left its waterways and coastlines severely polluted by industrial and farm chemicals and domestic sewage. About a quarter of the entire population lacks access to safe drinking water and, despite repeated government pledges of a cleanup, the situation is worsening. Some algae can produce dangerous toxins and if ingested can cause vomiting, respiratory failure and, on rare occasions, death. -- Full story with photos: http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MTIwMzk4NA==

June 2008 News and Views - 100th Edition Here...
With less than 60 days to go before the Beijing Olympic Games and all the media accreditation completed, AsianYachting has began compiling some material for the Daily Race Reports. Fourteen days of intensive competition is expected and while taking in all the action and covering the class winners we will be concentrating on the achievements of Asian sailors. If any companies would like to help us out we are offering advertising space in the XXIX Olympic Games - AY Race Reports at very generous rates. Email info@asianyachting.com for further details. Also if you know anyone that would like to receive the daily reports (For free) get them to Subscribe Online to the fully automated AY Circulation List click on: http://asianyachting.com/subscribe.asp?h=J then fill in the details and submit. We will take you on a journey you wont forget.
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Capt. Marty Rijkuris

2 . AUSTRAL - ASIAN NEWS (Goto Photo Edition) See Photo Gallery

2.1 ISAF News - Internet blamed for opening up worldly debate
Amidst what some might call an overload of information, a massive open debate raged since the ISAF Annual meeting in November 2007, when Council members voted on events for the 2012 Olympics and eliminated the Tornado catamaran. This caused an immediate outcry by the multihull sailors and a call for action by their supporters. Eventually an e-petition with 6000+ signatures was prepared and presented to the International Olympic Committee. The response was amazing and proved invaluable in persuading first the RYA to take the lead, then Yachting Australia and New Zealand to follow and a record 15 countries to make formal submissions to ISAF in only 10 days before the March 15th deadline. After allot of media wrangling and wild accusations by the mid-year meeting the argument had switched from favouring national medal prospects to identifying disciplines within the sport and what is the best outcome for sailing as a whole. In his opening address ISAF President Göran Petersson expressed concern at the level of negative personal attacks made against ISAF and ISAF Council members in publications, blogs and websites since the decision was taken in November 2007. All to no avail, as the required two-thirds majority could not be reached so the Council reaffirmed the 2012 Olympic events that were voted on during their Nov 07 Annual meeting stands. All done and dusted? Well you would think so... or is it?

The Good News is that the ISAF World Cup is now firmly on course to become a reality, with the announcement to Council that all event organizers have signed the memorandum of intent and that a management company has partnered with ISAF. Set to launch in 2009, the ISAF World Cup will include the following existing events, together with an event in the country to hold the next Olympic Games: Sail Melbourne, Rolex Miami OCR, Princess Sofia Trophy, Semaine Olympique Française, Holland Regatta, and Kiel Week. Additionally, the ISAF World Sailing Championship will now be held every two years, with effect from the earliest in 2013. -- With over 100 entrants at class World Championships they maybe much harder to negotiate a win, but the intrigue of the Olympics is always omnipresent. It also captures the imagination of so many young sailors it cannot be swept aside. For the complete ISAF report Click Here...

The first Youth Olympic Games being held in Singapore in 2010 will see sailing on the program for athletes in the age range of 15-16. ISAF has received bids from eight dinghy and two windsurfing manufacturers to supply the equipment for the four events - girl’s and boy’s single person dinghy and girl’s and boy’s windsurfer. The selected equipment will be announced by the end of July 2008. With a limit of 100 athletes, ISAF is targeting participation from 52 nations.

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2.2 Fifty three nations qualify for Beijing Olympic Games
After a hectic round of world titles during the first few months of the year, fifty three nations have qualified sailors for the 11 sailing events at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Australia, France, Germany, GB, Italy, NZ, USA and of coarse the hosts China have qualified for all eleven classes. Asian sailors have qualified for the Men's and Women windsurfer RS:X, Laser and 470 events which are mainly the boats raced in the region. Japan with six qualifiers is by far the best of the rest and managed to get up in the 49er class, Singapore also qualified in the Laser Radial. Now it is up to the individuals to fight it out among themselves to get selected to represent the nation.
Hong Kong: RS:X M, RS:X W
Indonesia: RS:X M
Japan: RS:X M, RS:X W, Laser, 470 M, 470 W, 49er
Korea: RS:X M, Laser, 470 M
Malaysia: Laser
PR China: HOST Nation has free entry to all 11 events
Singapore: Laser, 470 M, Laser Radial
Thailand: RS:X M, RS:X W
Browse http://www.sailing.org/22168.php to view a full list of events that countries have qualified for...

3 . INTERNATIONAL NEWS

3.1 Golden Age Of British Sailing
Photos by Ranald Mackechnie. See Photo Gallery
Britain's Beijing-bound sailors from Skandia Team GBR have stripped and posed for a good cause. They previously got down to bare essentials prior to the Athens Games when KOS shot the images to raise money for Sail for Gold, the charity that helps put money into the hands of the sailors who in 2000 and 2004 made sailing Britain's most successful Olympic sport. This time, nine hours of body panting by Phyllis Cohen and a 19-hour shoot was needed by Ranald Mackechnie to create the golden aura. Notice how sports science has sculpted the sailors' bodies to the specific weight and musculature of the particular boats they sail. Many people think that stripping off and posing for good causes that the, er, novelty has worn off, but Tim Jeffery from the Telegraph UK says without getting too anatomical about this, I make the point that many people still think sailing is about blazers and gin and tonic? Pah! (See Photo Edition here)

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