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Hugh Styles blog from Venice iShares cup
23/05/09
Hugh’s blog from Venice iShares Cup
Venice was an amazing venue for the first event of the iShares cup 2009, we were racing with St Marks square in the background and the iShares photographers got a brilliant picture of the boat flying a hull past a Gondola with the churches behind. Ten teams raced in a 300m wide by 800m long course, the teams consisted of one Americas cup outfit (BMW Oracle), two offshore racing multihull campaigns (Groupama and Gitana), two middle east catamaran campaigns from Oman Sail, an owner driven team from France. The sailors came from a wide variety of backgrounds…
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Double Olympic Gold Medallist Shirley Robertson to skipper Team iShares
27/03/09
Robertson, one of Britain’s all-time greatest female Olympic sailors, returns to the helm of an Extreme 40 having also competed in last year’s series. She will be joined by former British Olympic Tornado sailor Hugh Styles, with the remaining two crew members still to be named.
Having won back to back gold medals at the Sydney Games in 2000 (in the Europe dinghy) and Athens in 2004 (in the Yngling keelboat), Robertson now combines her busy sailing schedule with life as mother of twins and work as a TV presenter for the BBC and CNN.
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