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Olympics: 5 Ways Sailing is Exactly Like Curling

Posted onFebruary 17, 2022February 15, 2022AuthorCarol Newman Cronin4 Comments

Why do I watch curling? Because it’s a lot like sailing. Read More …

CategoriesOlympicsTagsCarol Newman Cronin, Curling, Olympics, Sailing, Winter Olympics 2022

Watching Tokyo Olympics from Honolulu hotel room

Tokyo 2020ne: Inspirational Magic

Posted onAugust 19, 2021August 17, 2021AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

Watching Olympic sailing still inspires me to excel at everything I do. Read More …

CategoriesOlympicsTagsCarol Newman Cronin, Gary Jobson, Olympics, Tokyo2020, Tokyo2020ne

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Game of Sails: An Olympic Love Story, now in Audio

Posted onJuly 29, 2021July 13, 2021AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

Game of Sails is now available in audio, just in time to celebrate Tokyo2021! Here’s how to get a free copy. Read More …

CategoriesAudio, Books, OlympicsTagsAudiobook, Carol Newman Cronin, Game of Sails: An Olympic Love Story, Olympic Sailing, Olympics, Tokyo2020, Tokyo2020ne

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Tokyo 2020ne: Sailing’s the Easy Part

Posted onJuly 22, 2021July 13, 2021AuthorCarol Newman Cronin6 Comments

Every Olympics is totally different—this one is just more so. Read More …

CategoriesOlympicsTagsAthens 2004, Carol Newman Cronin, Olympian, Olympic Sailing, Olympics, Tokyo2020, Tokyo2020ne

Road to Gold: How to Improve at Sailboat Racing

Posted onApril 15, 2021April 15, 2021AuthorCarol Newman Cronin2 Comments

Andy Rice and Hamish Willcox have designed a 12 step program to help improve results—at any level of sailboat racing. Read More …

CategoriesOlympics, Sailboat RacingTagsCarol Newman Cronin, Olympics

3 Writing Lessons from Olympic Sailing

Posted onJuly 23, 2020July 30, 2020AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

Sailors might be better known for swearing than writing, but lately I’ve been realizing how much my Olympic training helped me succeed as an author. Physically, the two skills couldn’t be more different; one demands constant movement, while the other Read More …

CategoriesOlympics, WritingTagsauthor, Carol Newman Cronin, lessons learned, Olympics, swear like a sailor, writing

Olympic excitement: Read all about it

Posted onJuly 23, 2020July 21, 2020AuthorCarol Newman Cronin2 Comments

Tokyo2020 was supposed to start this week. Instead, here’s a special offer. Read More …

CategoriesOlympicsTagsCarol Newman Cronin, Game of Sails, Olympics, Tokyo2020

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Shirley Robertson Interview

Posted onJanuary 23, 2020January 20, 2020AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

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 …

CategoriesAudio, SailingTagsCarol Newman Cronin, gold medal 2004, Olympics, podcast, Shirley Robertson, Yngling

San Francisco Bay offers plenty of variety for Olympic sail training.

No Building? No Problem

Posted onFebruary 21, 2019February 12, 2019AuthorCarol Newman Cronin

The January 2019 Seahorse included a small piece about FAST USA. Read More …

CategoriesOlympics, WritingTagsCarol Newman Cronin, FAST, Malcolm Page, Olympics, Sailing, San Francisco, Seahorse

What Makes an Olympic Champion?

Posted onMarch 22, 2018March 8, 2018AuthorCarol Newman Cronin2 Comments

Medaling at the Olympics is cursedly hard. So is understanding how it’s done. Read More …

CategoriesOlympics, Sailing, WritingTagsCarol Newman Cronin, Olympic champion, Olympics, Seahorse Magazine

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