Team GBR Olympic Team Announcement

The team so far picked has just been announced. http://www.rya.org.uk/NewsAndEvents/newsroom/news/teamgbrbeijingsquad.htm

Those selected for definite are:

Yngling – women’s keelboat
Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson
49er – skiff
Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes
Laser – men’s one person dinghy
Paul Goodison

Then come a group who will be selected subject to the agreement of, and delivery against, certain performance targets:

RS:X – men’s windsurfer
Nick Dempsey
RS:X – women’s windsurfer
Bryony Shaw
470 – men’s two person dinghy
Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield
470 – women’s two person dinghy
Christina Bassadone and Saskia Clark
Tornado – multihull
Leigh McMillan and Will Howden

In the Laser Radial class (women’s one person dinghy) the trials process will continue for a shortlist of four sailors – namely Charlotte Dobson, Penny Clark, Andrea Brewster and Lizzie Vickers – whose performances will be assessed at a number of regattas in the spring of 2008.

In the Finn (heavyweight dinghy) and Star (men’s keelboat) classes, the RYA’s selectors have deferred their selection decisions, pending further discussions with the sailors concerned.

The latter decision has to refer to Ben Ainslie and Iain Percy being declared earlier this week with major roles to play in the British America’s Cup challenge http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/sailing/6994764.stm

So my ex-crew member Annie Lush didn’t make it ( crewing for Shirley Robertson). Twice – so near and yet so far. My heart goes out to her.