The U.S. captured its first sailing medal since Rio Olympics
, Spain and the Netherlands won gold medals in the men’s and women’s skiffs respectively on Friday, while the United States snagged its first Olympic sailing medal since Rio eight years ago.
They thought they had cruised past the finish line but hadn’t realized the race committee had changed the course, and the line was on the other side of the committee boat. They quickly corrected course and crossed the right line, but lost time doing so. They looked puzzled and covered their faces for a few tense minutes before officials determined they had enough for gold anyway.
“It was hard to even dream about it,” added Trittel, who sailed a different class in the Tokyo Olympics. The women’s bronze went to Sarah Steyaert and Charline Picon of France – the “mama team,” as they call themselves since both have children, who cheered them on their fathers’ shoulders from the marina’s breakwater.
Also starting on Friday was a new sailing event, the mixed-gender dinghy called 470 – introduced this year to even out medal opportunities between men and women for the first time. And the men’s and women’s dinghies should be continuing their races, too, making for quite a crowd in Marseille’s beautiful, monument-fringed bay.
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