Makedonas 1,571 Posted April 10, 2022 #11 Share Posted April 10, 2022 22 hours ago, phelps said: Women's ILCA 6 Bronze: Vasileia Karachaliou She has the Portuguese flag in her Instagram bio, and the Hellenic Olympic Committee unfollowed her on Instagram. She is living in Ireland now and coaching there to make money to fund her career (at least in Greece she was given some funding even if it may have been inadequate), and she allegedly represented Cote d'Ivoire at a regatta in Portugal recently. Apparently if she wants to represent Portugal in major international competitions, she has to sit out for three years so she would miss the 2024 Olympics unless ISAF makes an exception for her. Honestly this situation has been blown way out of proportion. The Hellenic Sailing Federation made plenty of mistakes, but Karachaliou is also stubborn and in some ways unreasonable for not cooperating with the Hellenic Olympic Committee when they were trying to solve these problems. Of course it is easy for me to talk when I do not know what goes on behind the scenes, but still... The issue is now she burnt her bridges with Greece, and if she comes back and decides to stay with Greece so she can go to Paris 2024, she might be treated worse than before, and also the sponsor that the Hellenic Olympic Committee got for her (which also unfollowed her) probably won't be willing to sponsor her again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,782 Posted April 10, 2022 #12 Share Posted April 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Makedonas said: She has the Portuguese flag in her Instagram bio, and the Hellenic Olympic Committee unfollowed her on Instagram. She is living in Ireland now and coaching there to make money to fund her career (at least in Greece she was given some funding even if it may have been inadequate), and she allegedly represented Cote d'Ivoire at a regatta in Portugal recently. Apparently if she wants to represent Portugal in major international competitions, she has to sit out for three years so she would miss the 2024 Olympics unless ISAF makes an exception for her. Honestly this situation has been blown way out of proportion. The Hellenic Sailing Federation made plenty of mistakes, but Karachaliou is also stubborn and in some ways unreasonable for not cooperating with the Hellenic Olympic Committee when they were trying to solve these problems. Of course it is easy for me to talk when I do not know what goes on behind the scenes, but still... The issue is now she burnt her bridges with Greece, and if she comes back and decides to stay with Greece so she can go to Paris 2024, she might be treated worse than before, and also the sponsor that the Hellenic Olympic Committee got for her (which also unfollowed her) probably won't be willing to sponsor her again. very controversial situation...I hope finally someone can make a step back and allow this thing to be fixed without penalizing the athlete... however, this time she officially entered the Princesa Sofia representing Greece... Makedonas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,782 Posted September 6, 2022 #13 Share Posted September 6, 2022 2022 Nacra 17 World Championships ( St.Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia) Gold: Ruggero Tita & Caterina Banti Silver: Gianluigi Ugolini & Maria Giubilei Bronze: Sinem Kurtbay & Akseli Keskinen Pure Domination for Olympic Champions Tita & Banti https://nacra17.org/events/2022-world-championship/?newsid=16882 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,782 Posted September 6, 2022 #14 Share Posted September 6, 2022 2022 49er & 49er FX World Championships ( St.Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia) men's 49er Gold: Bart Lambriex & Floris van de Werken Silver: Diego Botin & Florian Trittel Paul Bronze: Sime Fantela & Mihovil Fantela Bart Lambriex and Floris van de Werken win 2022 49er World Championship https://49er.org/event/2022-world-championship/?newsid=33823 women's 49er FX Gold: Odile van Aanholt & Annette Duetz Silver: Vilma Bobek & Rebecca Netzler Bronze: Tamara Echegoyen & Paula Barcelò Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz (NED) win 49erFX World Championship https://49er.org/event/2022-world-championship/?newsid=33833 CCB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,782 Posted September 18, 2022 #15 Share Posted September 18, 2022 2022 Mixed 470 European Championships ( Cesme) Sweden secure Gold after Match Race with Spain Gold: Anton Dahlberg & Lovisa Karlsson Silver: Jordi Xammar Hernandez & Nora Brugman Cabot Bronze: Giacomo Ferrari & Bianca Caruso Full Ranking: https://2022europeans.470.org/en/default/races/race-resultsall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makedonas 1,571 Posted October 9, 2022 #16 Share Posted October 9, 2022 (edited) On 4/10/2022 at 3:30 PM, phelps said: very controversial situation...I hope finally someone can make a step back and allow this thing to be fixed without penalizing the athlete... however, this time she officially entered the Princesa Sofia representing Greece... Well she will be representing Portugal at the upcoming World Championships, and at all regattas afterwards. So Portugal gets the number 3 ranked sailor in the world in this class just because she wanted to find a new country. I wonder what incentives they are offering her, because everyone knows she is Greek and has no connection with Portugal... I would say I wish her the best but that would be a lie, the truth is I couldn't care less about her career anymore. Sorry if that sounds mean but at least I am an honest person...I won't wish her good luck because it would be fake. Hopefully our problematic federations (sailing, rowing, wrestling) get their acts together so we don't lose any more athletes (we have 2 rowers and 1 wrestler who all were at Tokyo 2020 and currently have publicized issues with the federations but for now the athletes say they still want to represent Greece and seem hopeful that they will build better relations with their federations). And the rowers are always thanking the Hellenic Olympic Committee for their help so I'd be shocked if they switched nationalities. Edited October 9, 2022 by Makedonas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agger 1,587 Posted October 16, 2022 #17 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Anne-Marie Rindom is back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,782 Posted October 18, 2022 #18 Share Posted October 18, 2022 2022 Formula Kite World Championships ( Cagliari) First world title for Vodisek, No.6 for Moroz men's Kite Gold: Toni Vodisek Silver: Maximilian Maeder Bronze: Axel Mazella women's Kite Gold: Daniela Moroz Silver: Lauriane Nolot Bronze: Eleanor Aldridge Full Results (M+W): https://www.formulakite.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,782 Posted October 18, 2022 #19 Share Posted October 18, 2022 On 10/16/2022 at 10:01 PM, Agger said: Anne-Marie Rindom is back! 2022 Women's ILCA6 World Championship ( Kemah, Texas, USA) Gold: Anne-Marie Rindom Silver: Maud Jayet Bronze: Emma Plasschaert Full Results: https://2022ilca6.ilca-worlds.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/Results-Women.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnl 658 Posted October 18, 2022 #20 Share Posted October 18, 2022 The German 470 team that is training in Sdot Yam for the WC has saved a man from drowning, amazing thing they have done phelps 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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