Olympic SailJuice

The Brits won six medals at a light wind regatta in Qingdao a year before the Games. That said, the Medal Races took place in strong winds and resulted in multiple capsizes, exactly as a year earlier...

This was most sailors' first experience of Qingdao conditions, and it wasn't a happy one. With current often stronger than the wind, to some athletes it felt more like a game of Pooh Sticks...

In 2005 Nathan Outteridge was in a car crash from which he was lucky to walk away with his life, and the chances of him ever sailing again were slim. Little more than two years later, he become 49er World Champion with his crew Ben Austin...