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September 2003 - World Championships

Well lets start with the good news,

NICK ROGERS & JOE GLANFIELD HAVE BEEN SELECTED FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES!!

This is absolutely fantastic news for us, we now have a guarenteed place at the Olympics and 11 months to prepare which will massively increase our chances of a gold medal.

We finished 10th at the world championships 20 places ahead of the next british boat Graham Vials/ Bevis Field. Despite this being lower then where we were hoping to come, our successful summer and the massive gap between us and the other British made the selection committee decide on selecting us early.
We made a poor start to the championship coming 27th overall after 2 races, we made a steady recovery through the regatta but not enough to challenge the leaders.

The 470 fleet is very up and down at the moment we had the most consistent summer in the world with a 4th, 2nd, 10th at the major events.
We will spend this winter working on finding more consistency and make a program that will work on techniques important in Athens, and one that will make sure we peak at this time as well. When we have worked this program out I will post it on the website along with our goals. For the next month we will do very little sailing, we will have a break, do some work wth sponsors and make a program with our coach.

I would like to take this opportunity also to say a massive thank you to all our sponsors, who have been amazing in helping us attain our goals.
The next year is going to be exciting!