The Olympics are starting in only a few days, and I got this press release giving you a way to give your best wishes (or last-minute advice <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />) to our sailors.

I sent a message to the e-mail address in the press release and put "Tornado team" in the subject line. Hope it gets to them.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Derby Anderson
DerbyAnderson@ussailing.org
+86 139 1082 4981 China cell
Wish Good Luck to Team USA Sailors!

Qingdao, China (August 1, 2008) – Now you can send your best wishes to anyone on the United States Olympic Sailing Team through [email]GoodLuckTeamUSA@ussailing.org.[/email] Whether you’d like to mail one sailor or the whole team, just send an email to this address. This new forum is a chance to express your support directly to our sailors in Qingdao, so spread the word and wish the sailors good luck!

To send messages to the whole team or anyone within the team, please mail [email]GoodLuckTeamUSA@ussailing.org.[/email]

Team Roster:

49er – Tim Wadlow (Beverly, Mass.) and Chris Rast (San Diego, Calif.)

Men’s 470 – Stu McNay (Lincoln, Mass.) and Graham Biehl (San Diego, Calif.)

Women’s 470 – Amanda Clark (Shelter Island, Mass.) and Sarah Mergenthaler (New York, N.Y.)

Finn – Zach Railey (Clearwater, Fla.)

Laser – Andrew Campbell (San Diego, Calif.)

Laser Radial – Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation, Fla.)

Men’s RS:X – Ben Barger (St. Petersburg, Fla.)

Women’s RS:X – Nancy Rios (Miami, Fla.)

Star – John Dane III (Gulfport, Miss.) and Austin Sperry (Gulfport, Miss.)

Tornado- John Lovell (New Orleans, La.) and Charlie Ogletree (Kemah, Tx.)

Yngling – Sally Barkow (Nashotah, Wis.) Carrie Howe (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) and Debbie Capozzi (Bayport, N.Y.)

"Your" sailors are not the same as "mine", and probably not the same than the ones people at my sailing club would support, which are also different from yours. So I wish them luck, but not the good luck I wish to my country's sailors

Anyway, the races will be boring as hell in no wind, the TV will snob sailing as usual (except maybe for a 2 second clip of a laser on its side) so we will not see anything.

And I've personally decided not to watch the olympics anyway: I don't see the point of so much wasted money.

My post was directed specifically toward the US Sailors. If you want a thread for your country's sailors, you are welcome to start another thread.

Hello sunshine.

If you want to support your countries sailors these are the dates for your diary.

Saturday 9 August

0600-1200: Finn races 1 & 2, yngling races 1 & 2

Sunday 10 August

0600-1200: 49er races 1, 2 & 3, finn races 3 & 4, yngling races 3 & 4

Monday 11 August

0600-1200: Men's & women's RSX races 1 & 2, 49er races 4, 5 & 6, men's & women's 470 races 1 & 2, finn races 5 & 6, yngling races 5 & 6

Tuesday 12 August

0600-1200: Men's & women's laser races 1 & 2, RSX races 3 & 4, men's & women's 470 races 3 & 4

Wednesday 13 August

0600-1200: Men's & women's laser races 3 & 4, yngling races 7 & 8, men's & women's 470 races 5 & 6, 49er races 7 & 8 & 9, finn races 7 & 8

Thursday 14 August

0600-1200: 49er races 10, 11 & 12, men's & women RSX races 5 & 6, men's & women's laser races 5 & 6, finn races 9 & 10, yngling races 9 & 10

Friday 15 August

0600-1200: Tornado races 1 & 2, star races 1 & 2, 49er races 13 & 14 & 15, men's 470 races 7 & 8, women's 470 races 7 & 8

Saturday 16 August

0600-1200: Finn medal race, yngling medal race, men's & women's RSX 7 & 8, men's & women's laser 7 & 8, men's & women's 470 9 & 10, tornado 3 & 4, star 3 & 4

Sunday 17 August

0600-1200: Men's laser races 9 & 10, women's laser races 9 & 10, tornado races 5 & 6, star races 5 & 6

Monday 18 August

0600-1200: Men's & women's 470 medal races, men's & women's RSX 9 & 10

Tuesday 19 August

0600-1200: Men's & women's laser medal races, tornado 7 & 8, star 7 & 8

Wednesday 20 August

0600-1200: Men's & women's RSX medal races, tornado 9 & 10, star 9 & 10

Thursday 21 August

0600-1200: Tornado & star medal races

All the best

Gareth

Just checked the NBC schedule, and there will be live on-line video streaming of the sailing events, from 1am-6am EDT. Also, on the NBC Olympics Sailing site site there is a on-line survey asking if the Tornado should be back in 2012, sofar 84% voted Yes.

Thank you. I found it, and I voted.

Can you guys post direct links please? I have to work (sometimes) and it would be nice to cut the searching.

i thought posting to Catsailor.com was your job!

Done!

Good Luck to the US Olympic Sailing Team. Just voted, now up to 85% in favor of the Multihull. Also donated twice to the US Olympic Team. First time, got the jacket, last time the sailing bag. Still time to donate and support the team.

Caleb Tarleton

Link for website, US Olympic Team Donations.
https://www.roadtobeijing.org/Default.aspx?tabid=150

That IS a direct link in arievd's post right before mine. Just scroll down to the bottom of the page where the poll is.

there wasn't before... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Did everyone send a message to John and Charlie at the link in the press release in the initial post? I figure if we can get a huge number of e-mails to them through that US Sailing site, it will be another way of showing US Sailing how much the multihull sailors care. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Just to make sure you have it again, below is the link to send good wishes to the US Sailing team in the Olympics. Again, if you are directing it to a specific person or team, put that in the subject line. (At least that is what I think you are supposed to do to get it to the right people.)

To send messages to the whole team or anyone within the team, please mail [email]GoodLuckTeamUSA@ussailing.org.[/email]

And, AGAIN, if you are not a United States sailor, please disregard this and post your own thread to solicit best wishes for your own country's team.

We don't have any cat sailors in our Olympic squad, so I say good luck to all the olympic cat sailors <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I'm just back from a wedding in Palo Alto, near San Francisco. Many of the US squad were staying there while we were there. So good luck to all Olympians <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />