Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing News
French Claim European Mixed Offshore Title as Ireland's Fogerty & Glenny Make L30 Debut
15th September 2020 Howth YC France has claimed the inaugural European Mixed Offshore Title in Italy in which Ireland's Conor Fogerty and Susan Glenny made their debut in the L30 keelboat but unfortunately did not finish the one race event. Fogerty says he is still…
Can Irish Mixed Offshore Trial Cancellation Lead to New Plan for Paris 2024 Olympics?
26th March 2020 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Every cloud has a silver lining and perhaps for Irish Sailing, it has come with the cancellation of the trials series scheduled in Concarneau for the World Offshore Sailing Championships this week. Its cancellation notice, however, was notably the first…
Paris 2024 Mixed Two Person Keelboat Offshore Equipment Call Receives 12 Responses from Classes & Manufacturers
18th February 2020 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Following a request for information to allow for a Paris 2024 Mixed Two Person Keelboat Offshore Equipment market assessment, World Sailing has received a positive industry response from Manufacturers and Class Associations. In December 2019, World Sailing issued a Request…
Navigator with Irish Roots Adrienne Cahalan Embarks on 2024 Olympic Campaign for Australia
13th February 2020 Mixed Offshore Keelboat An offshore navigator Adrienne Cahalan with Irish roots is aiming to represent Australia in the new double-handed offshore class for the 2024 Olympic Games, teaming up with Nick Moloney to make a comeback to short-handed offshore sailing. Cahalan, who is…
After selecting the iFoil as the Men’s and Women’s Windsurfer for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Friday, World Sailing’s Council, the main decision-making body, concluded their meeting on Saturday 2 November. A number of submissions, proposing change to World…
Mixed Olympic Keelboat Class for Paris 2024 Has Irish Interest
17th August 2019 Mixed Offshore Keelboat As the Irish Olympic Sailing team embark on this week's Pre-Olympic regatta in Enoshima, Japan the fact that only one of four Irish campaigns have yet qualified will be occupying minds just a year out from Tokyo 2020. The prospect…
Former Afloat Irish Sailor of the Year, Conor Fogerty arrived onto the dock in Dun Laoghaire from Les Sables de Olinges with “Raw”, a fresh out of the box, foiling Beneteau Figaro 3, Ireland’s first IRC foiling Figaro keelboat. Afloat…
RS Sailing says it respects the World Sailing council vote to retain the Laser as the Men’s and Women’s One Person Dinghy event for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris — while also hailing the RS Aero’s superior evaluation. As…
Laser Selected as the Men’s and Women’s One Person Dinghy for Paris 2024
19th May 2019 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing World Sailing’s Council made key decisions on the Equipment to be used at the Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Competition on Sunday 19 May as the Mid-Year Meeting concluded in London, Great Britain. The Laser was selected as the Men’s and…
Windsurfing Champion Hits Out At World Sailing’s Retention Of RS:X For Paris 2024 Without Sea Trials
17th May 2019 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing The dinghy classes are not the only subjects of open letters to World Sailing chiefs as they meet in London this weekend, with Dutch windsurfer Dorian van Rijsselberghe issuing his own missive criticising the retention of the RS:X class without…
How Will an Irish Olympic Two-Person Offshore Campaign for France 2024 take shape?
12th January 2019 Mixed Offshore Keelboat A woman. A man. Three days and two nights together at sea. Racing in a cramped 30ft boat. Under 24-hour surveillance. It sounds like the latest pitch for a Reality TV show. Arguably, it is. But it’s also the new…
Mixed Offshore Event added to Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Competition
5th November 2018 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing A Mixed Two Person Keelboat Offshore Event will feature at the Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Competition, providing a new dynamic to the Olympic movement, following ratification at World Sailing's Annual General Meeting. After a week of meetings, the AGM brought…
Sailing Not Included on Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Sports Programme
14th September 2018 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing World Sailing says it is shocked and disappointed to learn that sailing has not been included by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. The decision came (13 September 2018) following an IPC Board meeting earlier…
After much debate at World Sailing’s Mid-Year Meeting, a new program of ten Events have been confirmed. While 7 Events at Tokyo 2020 will continue, there are three new events but little other detail, according to Craig Leweck in Scuttlebutt. …
