Search Results for: Olympics
Good News: We Adapt
Lessons learned from 9/11 inspire hope that we’ll weather this crisis too. Read More …
Shirley Robertson Interview
Calling all sailors, or at least all sailors who enjoy podcasts: listen to Shirley! Shirley Robertson won the Yngling gold medal in 2004, and I caught up with her again at the Star Sailors League Finals in Nassau. We shared Read More …
Women In Sailing: Upwind Battle to Parity
Four days at an all-male championship reminded me how most of the sailing world operates. Read More …
Olympic Memories: Audio-documentary
Interviewed by my nephew about my Olympic experience: does this make me the “cool” aunt? Read More …
U.S. Olympic Sailing: All Change
Our current system is broken, and now we have a golden opportunity to fix it. Read More …
Happy 10th Anniversary, Blog
A decade of blogging has taught me a lot about writing, sailing, and myself. Read More …
No Building? No Problem
The January 2019 Seahorse included a small piece about FAST USA. Read More …
US Olympic Update: Sailing’s the Easy Part
While it’s easy to see the big picture from the VIP boat (or sidewalk), it’s much harder to appreciate how much work goes into every detail of Olympic sailing. Read More …
Olympian
“You Went to the Olympics??” It seems so long ago, and yet also quite a bit like yesterday: Athens 2004. I can still taste the dry heat and adrenaline. The “athlete experience” is very different from the “as seen on Read More …
What Makes an Olympic Champion?
Medaling at the Olympics is cursedly hard. So is understanding how it’s done. Read More …
