E-NEWS

June 2005

From France

After our Christmas race, most of us took a pause due mainly to the lack of good conditions (too much wind, cold weather...) and a lack of races during the winter period. The come back to race was, for the majority of us, on March 26th for an inter-regional race held in 4 places around France. The conditions were quitly different from one place to another as some of us didn´t sail at all while other had too much wind. Then, after a quick come back to serious training for some of us, there was our National Spring Cup held in La Rochelle (place for the sailing part of the Olympic Games if they are in Paris in 2012). From April 17th to 21st, 78 sailors met in difficult conditions. There have been strong winds as well as light winds. No surprisingly, our veteran Peter Van Lear won, followed by two young sailors, Sébastian Scotto and Loic Baizez (Brice´s brother). There were some places for the first to qualify the European. Less than 3 weeks later, it was the turn of the French Senior Championship held on the Maubuisson Lake in the south west of France, near Bordeaux. The conditions were nearly the same as in La Rochelle. There were 25 women and 43 men. It is also to notice that about 15 of our former sailors are now on other Olympic support. They are on 470 (Brice Baizez, Blandine Rouille and Manon Borsi), Tornado (Mathieu Derand and Jean Christophe Gache), Laser Radial (Solène Brain, Sophie de Turckheim, Mathilde Geron and Sarah Steyaert) or Laser (Emmanuel Taine). We can also notice that the Europe dinghy is a very good boat because at the last French Senior Championship, the podium was full of former Europe Sailors (Solène, Mathilde and Sarah) on the Laser Radial dinghy. Last I would like to invite you to our summer National Cup which will be held in Pareloup (South) from August 13rd to 18th. It is open to everyone wanting to do it and will be preceeded by a franco-german training period of one week.

Antoine
FRA 5579 (el Pécador)

IECU

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