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ISAF Sailing Games are live on Sail.tv

by ISAF on 20 May 2006

Sail.TV will be providing free live coverage of the final Medal Race at the ISAF World Sailing Games on Saturday 20 May. The new Olympic Competition Format will be used here in Austria, with the top ten boats from today's gold fleet final series qualifying through to the Medal Race Final.

In the build up to tomorrow's ten boat Medal Race Final, Sail.TV is showing the highlights of the racing and daily news round-ups of the previous day’s racing at the ISAF World Sailing Games from 0800-1000 UTC, on Wednesday 17 through Friday 19 May 2006.

Coverage will be provided free and the Medal Race Finals will be commentated live on Saturday 20 May, with coverage commencing from 0855 UTC (1055 local time in Austria). Yachting pundit Magnus WHEATLEY will provide the live commentary. For those that miss the live streaming, footage will be available for viewers to watch on demand at www.Sail.tv

To view the news round up from 17 May, showing the action from the race course and interviews from the Hobie Tiger, 470 and Laser fleets, CLICK HERE.

Sail.TV is available free to anyone with a broadband internet connection and is aiming to offer a one-stop shop of sailing footage to the sport's community. Launched in January 2006, Sail.TV offers footage from the world’s leading yachting events, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As well as continuous sailing programming, Sail.TV also provides on-demand footage of many worldwide sailing events.

The final races of the gold and silver fleets continue on Lake Neusiedl today, with the first starts at 1100 local time (0900 UTC). The top ten boats across each of the gold fleets will proceed to tomorrow's final Medal Race.

For all the news on the 2006 ISAF World Sailing Games CLICK HERE.

Website Links
  Event Website
  Results
  The Race Live
  Sail.TV
  ISAF World Sailing Games microsite
  ISAF World Sailing Rankings
  Austrian Sailing Federation

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