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Now on 64.5 points to second placed Hong Kong's 100.5, the Irish team's position at the Rolex Commodores' Cup is looking all but unassailable.

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Rayroux has been sailing for less than two years and trains at the Societe Nautique de Geneve, where she is coached by the Argentine Ezequiel Schargorodsky.

"Oh! SIN has dropped her sail once again and ISR is closing up". Ko Jia Yun (SIN) tweets furiously from the Techno girl boat, alerting spectators to the drama unfolding on the course at the National Sailing Centre.

International Olympic Committee president and former Olympic sailor Jacques Rogge was a surprise visitor to the National Sailing Centre on Friday.

There are new leaders in the Boys Byte Cll and the Girls Techno 293 windsurfing classes after day three of the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

In crossing the line at 21.15.24, on Wednesday 18 August, Armel Le Cleac'h on 'Brit Air' won his third leg and overall victory in the Solitaire du Figaro 2010.

The 85 SYZ & CO Moth European Championship participants were thrilled to see the sun today. The area looked like a postcard, with electric blue sky, turquoise colour lake and more than 20 knots of wind.

It was another solid day for the Irish team, leaders since the opening day of the regatta last Sunday.

Australian teen senstation Jessica Watson has became the newest face of the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships.

Racing began yesterday at the St Quay International Women Match Race in Saint Quay-Portrieux, France. Anne-Claire Le Berre (FRA) and Camilla Ulrikeholm (DEN) lead the way with 6 wins each.

Kaarle Tapper (FIN) started sailing when his grandparents took him to an Optimist-class starters school in Helsinki as a seven-year-old.

IOC President and former Olympic sailor Jacques Rogge (BEL) believes the culture, education and sense of fun that have permeated the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games would benefit the summer Olympics.

Despite growing up on Lake Geneva, Sebastien Schneiter (SUI) almost ended up pursuing a career in skiing rather than on the water.

Constanze Stolz (GER), is one of the favourites in the girls' Byte Cll at the Singapore Youth Olympics after winning the first of the five races and placing second in the second.

Austria's Lara Vadlau has been sailing for more than half her life.

What a great way to finish a series, 15 to 20 knots and four races that really tested the stamina of the competitors.

Six races have been completed at the 2010 RS500 World Championship hosted by Aquavitesse in the Netherlands and just two point separate the top two teams. Day three was a day of two halves with two fast and furious races sailed in 13-15knots of wind.

Ireland extend their lead in the 2010 Rolex Commodore's Cup offshore race

After three days racing in Stockholm, ten crews arrived in Tallinn, Estonia to take part in the second event of the Baltic Match Tour 2010, the ISAF Grade 2 Baltic Match Race 2.