Two Dun Laoghaire Harbour sailors are a step closer to the Paris 2024 Olympics thanks to their performances at last week's World Sailing Championships in The Hague.
In addition to the National Yacht Club's Finn Lynch gaining Ireland's only place so far for the Marseille-based Olympic regatta, his Rio 2016 teammate Saskia Tidey (30) also took a berth in the 49er FX for Team GB.
As regular Afloat readers will recall, Tidey quit the Irish Team after Rio 'due to lack of opportunities at home' in the 49er FX skiff and embarked on a new campaign for Team GB (thanks to dual citizenship), and led the Tokyo 2020 event at the halfway stage with Scottish helm Charlotte Dobson before finishing sixth. Now the Royal Irish Yacht Club ace has qualified Britain for Paris 2024 by coming home fifth in The Hague with new helm Freya Black and is a front-runner to make Team GB for a second time, bringing with it the prospect of her becoming a triple Olympian.
Tidey and Black were among eight Team GB teams to achieve qualification in The Hague.