ISAF

With the great mosques of Istanbul providing the most dramatic of backdrops, the outcome of the 2010 Open 470 European Championships remained in the balance until the final leg of the men's Medal Race.

ISAF has published the 2012 Olympic Qualification System as approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Ernesto Rodriguez and Mary Hall of the US sailed the last race of the 2010 Snipe Western Hemisphere and Orient Championship and confirmed they are the true champions by winning it.

Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team won the 'King of the Mountain' title today in spectacular style, taking a huge stride towards his quest to become the 2010 ISAF Match Racing World Champion.

With a fourteenth from a dramatic, blustery, final race off England's Hayling Island Australia's Tom Slingsby clinched his third Laser World Champion title in four years ahead of Skandia Team GBR's Nick Thompson who took silver.

With just the Medal Race remaining, the outcome of the 2010 Open 470 European Championships is far from clear. Two races in the gusty and shifty waters of Istanbul reshuffled the order of the men's fleet, and now just five points separate the top six teams.

Ed Wright (GBR) put a wrong to right today in winning the Finn Gold Cup in San Francisco. It has been an enigma of the class that the former world number one had never won a world title.

Tom Slingsby's two completely dominant victories today bring the Australian's third Laser world title in four years within reach.

On a frustrating day for the six teams battling to reach the semi-finals of the St. Moritz Match Race, perhaps the biggest fight was off the water between the gradient northerly wind and the thermally induced southerly, which left the racecourse peppered with monumental wind shifts, holes and gusts.

Up to today, the defending women's champions from Italy have owned the 2010 Open 470 European Championships. Giulia Conti and Giovanna Micol might have had a bad opening heat at the beginning of the week, but since then a string of race wins had launched them into a seemingly unassailable lead.

Rollercoaster ride was the best description of the two final races of the RS:X World Championships in Kerteminde, Denmark with victory going to Poland's Piotr Myszka in the Men's class and to Blancha Manchon from Spain in the Women.

The tension was palpable, on the World Match Racing Tour, now deep in the Swiss Alps at the St. Moritz Match Race as the final push to qualify for the quarter-finals reached fever pitch.

As the 2010 Open 470 European Championships shifted from the qualification stage to the finals, the Greek teams moved up the rankings. In the morning the two men's qualifying fleets headed out to decide their final of six heats before they were reshuffled into Gold and Silver for the finals.

The windiest day yet at the 2010 Finn Gold Cup in San Francisco produced some more thrilling racing, close finishes and spectacular sailing. Regatta leader Ed Wright has moved into a 13 point lead going into Saturday's medal race after a scoring 3-1 while nearest rivals Rafa Trujillo (ESP) scored 2-3 and Giles Scott (GBR) scored 2-5. .

There were 39 black flag penalties over the course of today's first finals racing day for the Seniors off Hayling Island. All three of the top sailors this morning fell foul of the big drop.

Light shifting winds allowed just one shortened race to be held in both the Men and Women's Gold fleets today at the RS:X World Championship in Kerteminde, Denmark, the competition watched by HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark.

Istanbul produced sun, wind and waves for a spectacular day three at the 2010 Open 470 European Championships. With the warm wind pulsing from 15-20 knots, it also provided the medicine that some teams needed to haul themselves up from a shaky previous day's racing in the lighter, shiftier breezes.

After another two windy races, the top five at the Finn Gold Cup in San Francisco maintain their relative positions but Rafa Trujillo (ESP) who scored 1-2 and Ed Wright (GBR) who scored 2-5 increased their lead over the rest of the fleet. .

Overall leader Tom Slingsby carries forward his consistent momentum into the critical six race Finals phase of the Laser World Championships buoyed by his fourth race win and a fifth from the last day of Qualifying heats in Hayling Bay off Hayling Island.

Showing that experience pays in this class, so today veteran windsurfer and quadruple Olympic medallist Alessandra Sensini from Italy pulled into the lead at the RS:X World Championships, being held at Kerteminde, Denmark.