Posted By: Mark Schneider
Rio in 4 short years!!! - 08/13/12 05:09 PM
So, the US team was shut out at Weymouth. The slings and arrows of just what happened are just beginning.
The clock does not care.... Next challenge is Rio in 4 years and so there are lots of questions....
Do Woman's match and Men's keel sailors retire? or jump to mixed multihulls.
Could Paige and her brother pair up for a late run on mixed mulit... LOTS of olympic experience on that team.
Does Mark Mandelbrot take to Nacra 17 and learn to drive from a wire?
Do the Lovells see a target rich opportunity late in the game and jump in..... Lots of multi experienc on that possible team.
Does Robbie D find a partner and make a run.
Does Matt Struble convince his wife and ex teammate to take a shot
Can the sailors on the US Development team get the needed experience to be world class in 4 years.
Do the current Olympic Sailors suck the oxygen from the atomosphere and starve any of the new sailors to the circus?
Does anybody project a medal winner out of this pool?
Dean Brenner instituted the notion of "team" in the classic sense of the word and sought to get the sailors working in partnership.... with the best results at the end of the road in ISAF world events determining the US representative.... this was VERY different from the past .... US Sailors would find a training partner overseas and share information with those guys.... The level of cooperation extended at best to packing the container for trips overseas. A cage match at the trials would determine the US representative..
What's the best path to Rio...
The clock does not care.... Next challenge is Rio in 4 years and so there are lots of questions....
Do Woman's match and Men's keel sailors retire? or jump to mixed multihulls.
Could Paige and her brother pair up for a late run on mixed mulit... LOTS of olympic experience on that team.
Does Mark Mandelbrot take to Nacra 17 and learn to drive from a wire?
Do the Lovells see a target rich opportunity late in the game and jump in..... Lots of multi experienc on that possible team.
Does Robbie D find a partner and make a run.
Does Matt Struble convince his wife and ex teammate to take a shot
Can the sailors on the US Development team get the needed experience to be world class in 4 years.
Do the current Olympic Sailors suck the oxygen from the atomosphere and starve any of the new sailors to the circus?
Does anybody project a medal winner out of this pool?
Dean Brenner instituted the notion of "team" in the classic sense of the word and sought to get the sailors working in partnership.... with the best results at the end of the road in ISAF world events determining the US representative.... this was VERY different from the past .... US Sailors would find a training partner overseas and share information with those guys.... The level of cooperation extended at best to packing the container for trips overseas. A cage match at the trials would determine the US representative..
What's the best path to Rio...