Olympic sailing shakeup: Breaking down the new Olympic sailing format

Matt Sheahan reports on the new Olympic sailing format, which see the Medal Race replaces with a new system (and not the winner-takes-all options so decried by many)

Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Test Event, Marseille, France. Day 3 Race Day on 11th July 2023.

Most of us are off the water and counting down the weeks to the start of the new season as the northern hemisphere delivers this season’s offering of short days, long nights and hardcore weather systems that slide across the Atlantic. But for some...