Final Results of the Important one (US Sailing Tornado Olympic Pre-Trials).

Take a look and cheer for our boys Robbie Daniel and Eric Jacobsen and their support/coach Jill Nickerson! They didn't even have to race the last race. They did very well against the best. USA takes top spot at this one.

http://www.ussailing.org/Olympics/2004Trials/TorPTresults.htm

I don't know, maybe I'm just a sick individual, but considering today's political climate, I'm getting a thrill out of seeing the "dirty warmongering Americans" beat out the French for first, and not having to race the whole regatta to do it :P

Sure would be nice to see some American Tornado sailors do well in Europe this spring!

I thougt there were no politics in Sailing ?

Hey Maugan

Don't you think that for now your comment is really misplaced?
World peace is at stake and you are mixing this with some futile tornado race. I can see that nobody feels easy with what is going on, even on this forum: I do not see the familiar european/USA fight (Wooter? Sam?).
Please respect this, like everybody does.
If You want to show your commitment for this, participate to a march, a meeting, go to political forums but do not aggregate peacefull activities with (real)war discussions. Thanx

You over-estimate the wooz.
He quit voicing his anti-American sentiments when he ripped off the Formula16.
Yes, there were and are different F16s before him.
He still hates America and Americans, but he knows he has to hold his tongue in order to keep his scam going.
What do you call it when someone is preaching one thing and doing another, besides politics.
He owns one boat, an old, leaky Prindle.
He claims to have all the parts for a new boat, except hulls , crossbars and tramp, since last spring.
Who claims to buy sails A YEAR BEFORE HE BUILDS HULLS?
He claims to have a set of Taipan 4.9 plans, but he said he was modifying the deck design for his Tiafoon.
So basically he is stealing 95% of the Taipan design, cheating them out of their fees, and taking credit for "designing" a "new" boat.
Who trusts this person?

No I don't think its out of place at all.

I found it HUMOROUS.

I know it may be difficult to laugh when you know that those French oilfields in Iraq are going to get lit up like the 4th of july.

..I really don't want to get into a political discussion on this board. I have to write tons of papers about this every month for my interview process, and I prefer not to be a "penible" on here.

Okay, I'll bite. What's a "penible"?

Whoops, maybe I shouldn't say "bite" until I know what it is.

Ahahhaha, it means "annoyance" but basically, the way I was taught to use it in context, is when you want to describe someone as a pain in the butt. :P

Okay, lest we miseducate fellow forum users, I have to report that I could not find the word in my new Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. I did find it in my older edition and it is listed only as an obsolete adjective meaning laborious, painful or painstaking (as in, "digging a ditch is a penible chore").

But since the dictionary evidently dropped it, I see no reason why it cannot be reborn as a noun with whatever meaning you want to give it.

Meanwhile, I would hesitate to use it in a Scrabble game.

you may not have found it in your dictionary, because its french

I'm sorry! I didn't realize you were French.
And the word in my dictionary did not indicate a French origin. Sorry I even mentioned it.

Haha, its ok, I'm not french... I've just had 8+ years of the language forced down my throat in the course of my education.