Not long back from the Volvo Ocean Race, Spanish 49er sailor Iker Martinez talks about luck, and his hopes for winning a third Olympic medal in the 49er
Andy Meiklejohn was doing bow on Team Sanya when a bad landing off a wave caused him to break his ankle. Hours later, the same slamming broke the boat. At least the VO70 is back in the Volvo Ocean Race for leg 2, but Andy is having to wait a while longer before he's fit enough to get back on at the sharp end of Team Sanya....
In Part 2 of our exclusive interview, Stevie Morrison talks about what's needed to get past the clear World No.1 team in the 49er at the moment, Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen from Australia. "Our understanding of the masts and the sails is a lot better, our basic commitment to – does it feel right, is the load on the helm right – is the boat balanced – is a lot more critical, we’re a lot more willing to try things."
Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes have had a tough time in the 49er the past few years, but some recent successes point towards better times, starting with the Olympic Test Regatta 2011 in Weymouth. SailJuice spoke to Morrison to get his thoughts leading up to Weymouth...
Julien Kleiner won his second 505 World title racing in Australia with Wolfgang Hunger. It was a controversial final race that decided the contest between the Germans and the USA team of Mike Holt and Carl Smit....
Nick Thompson may not be as well known as Paul Goodison or Tom Slingsby, but unlike these two legends the young Brit is the only Laser sailor to have medalled at both previous World Championships. Goodison will be watching Thompson carefully, knowing that one wrong move could cost the reigning Olympic Champion selection for Team GBR to race the Laser at next year's Olympics. SailJuice asked Thompson how he fancies his chances...
Dylan Fletcher & Alain Sign have been the most consistent British 49er sailors of recent times, but they're not happy yet. All the Brit squad members are good, but not good enough...
"The medal race you generally have to pick one side or the other because there’s fewer boats and you’ve got to make sure you’re on the right side of it. It’s a bit harder with the medal race, but still, there’s no point just sending it out into a corner if you’re not sure that that’s going to work." Ben Ainslie continues his interview with SailJuice...
Skandia Sail for Gold 2011 is crunch time for many sailors, the strong British Finn squad included. Ben Ainslie is the favourite, but the three-time Olympic Champion has never had it so tough trying to beat his fellow Brits, Giles Scott and reigning World Champ Ed Wright among them....
Alex Rickham talks about her preparations for Weymouth 2012 Paralympics in the two-person Skud keelboat. A twice World Champion, Rickham has her sites set on gold. She made the switch from crew to helm after Qingdao 2008, and the partnership with Niki Birrell is going from strength to strength...
Giles Scott was struggling to stay down to weight for the Laser. Standing 6’6 tall, Scott was keeping down to 83kg, only with a lot of dieting. His body fatpercentage was down to 6.5%, although he didn’t find it as difficult as it sounded. “Weirdly enough in the last year it was actually relatively easy because I was at uni. I was a lazy student and I didn’t have to go shopping all that often for food. I don’t know, it’s weird, I think you almost get used to living and feeling that way once you’ve done it for so long, and then it actually was a bit difficult when I suddenly got told that ‘right, you’ve got to eat, you’ve got to put on 15 kilos for the Finn.’”
Scott acknowledges that he needs to open himself up to more risk-taking in the medal race. “There are sailors that do take big massive gambles in medal racing and sometimes it comes off well for them. But obviously, the difficult thing about that is that every gamble you win you are going to lose one. Fundamentally I think that you just need to be more aggressive with it than everyone else is.”
Andy Meiklejohn was doing bow on Team Sanya when a bad landing off a wave caused him to break his ankle. Hours later, the same slamming broke the boat. At least the VO70 is back in the Volvo Ocean Race for leg 2, but Andy is having to wait a while longer before he's fit enough to get back on at the sharp end of Team Sanya.... 
Nick Thompson may not be as well known as Paul Goodison or Tom Slingsby, but unlike these two legends the young Brit is the only Laser sailor to have medalled at both previous World Championships. Goodison will be watching Thompson carefully, knowing that one wrong move could cost the reigning Olympic Champion selection for Team GBR to race the Laser at next year's Olympics. SailJuice asked Thompson how he fancies his chances... 
"The medal race you generally have to pick one side or the other because there’s fewer boats and you’ve got to make sure you’re on the right side of it. It’s a bit harder with the medal race, but still, there’s no point just sending it out into a corner if you’re not sure that that’s going to work." Ben Ainslie continues his interview with SailJuice...
Skandia Sail for Gold 2011 is crunch time for many sailors, the strong British Finn squad included. Ben Ainslie is the favourite, but the three-time Olympic Champion has never had it so tough trying to beat his fellow Brits, Giles Scott and reigning World Champ Ed Wright among them....
