US SAILING's 2010 Rolex Miami OCR
Olympic Medal Races Determine Prized Podium Positions

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Team Tunnicliffe (USA) vs Team MacGregor (GBR) in the Finals of Women's Match Racing
(Credit: Walter Cooper/ US SAILING) 

Miami, Fla. (January 30, 2010) – It was “one race, one chance” today at US SAILING’s 2010 Rolex Miami OCR, the second of seven stops of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Sailing World Cup 2009-2010. After gold, silver and bronze medalists were determined yesterday in three Paralympic classes, it was now the turn for sailors in ten Olympic classes to claim podium positions, but the plot came with a twist. Just as will happen at the Olympics in 2012, only the top-ten finishers--determined after five days of fleet racing--earned the right to sail in today’s single medal race for each class, except for in Women’s Match Racing. In that event, which makes its Olympic debut in 2012, sailors competed in finals and petit-finals to determine medalists. Read more



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