Sailing Discussion | Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Road to LA 2028

[clemsonbeav 213]

I'm trying to learn more about unfamiliar-to-me sports, specifically about how the Olympic athletes compete in the off season.  I'm learning about the Sailing Grand Slam, which is actually finishing up this weekend with Dutch Water Week (which isn't even on the calendar here).  Five regattas throughout the year.

 

https://www.sailinggrandslam.com/

 

Intrigued to try and follow it more in 2026.

 

Anyone else follow sailing at all?

[phelps 8,292]

iQFOiL European Championships 2025 ( Sferracavallo, Palermo)

 

women's Event

 

Gold:  Daniela Peleg
Silver:  Emma Wilson
Bronze:  Maya Gysler (U-23 Gold)

 

men's Event

 

Gold:  Luuc Van Opzeeland
Silver:  Nicolas Goyard
Bronze:  Finn Hawkins

 

Full Results & Rankings

https://iqeuropeans2025italy.sailti.com/en/default/races/race-resultsall

[phelps 8,292]

Just now, phelps said:

iQFOiL European Championships 2025 ( Sferracavallo, Palermo)

 

women's Event

 

Gold:  Daniela Peleg
Silver:  Emma Wilson
Bronze:  Maya Gysler (U-23 Gold)

 

men's Event

 

Gold:  Luuc Van Opzeeland
Silver:  Nicolas Goyard
Bronze:  Finn Hawkins

 

Full Results & Rankings

https://iqeuropeans2025italy.sailti.com/en/default/races/race-resultsall

"only" 4th place for the 2024 Olympic Champion,  Marta Maggetti in the women's division, where  Medea Falcioni was 7th overall (and Silver in the U-23 ranking) at just 15 years of age 

 

meanwhile, very disappointing 19th place for Nicolò Renna, our supposed leader (multiple world medallist, here only 5th among the Italian surfers) in the men's division

the only good news from the men's competition is the U-23 gold by Leonardo Tomasini (7th overall)

[phelps 8,292]

despite massive protests by the sailors,

 

World Sailing Council approves LA28 event format recommendations

 

At a meeting held on Wednesday 10 December 2025, the World Sailing Council approved recommendations from the World Sailing Events Committee determining the format of the Olympic Sailing Competition at the LA28 Olympic Games

 

Full story

https://www.sailing.org/2025/12/12/world-sailing-council-approves-la28-event-format-recommendations/

[phelps 8,292]

Just now, phelps said:

despite massive protests by the sailors,

 

World Sailing Council approves LA28 event format recommendations

 

At a meeting held on Wednesday 10 December 2025, the World Sailing Council approved recommendations from the World Sailing Events Committee determining the format of the Olympic Sailing Competition at the LA28 Olympic Games

 

Full story

https://www.sailing.org/2025/12/12/world-sailing-council-approves-la28-event-format-recommendations/

personal opinion on the new formats

 

[JoshMartini007 2,767]

Not liking this compression score idea...

 

You are basically punishing someone for being too good.

 

Kite/windsurfing is okay...

[NearPup 3,504]

2 hours ago, phelps said:

personal opinion on the new formats

 

On top of everything else it feels needlessly complicated.

[phelps 8,292]

2 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Not liking this compression score idea...

 

You are basically punishing someone for being too good.

 

Kite/windsurfing is okay...

have you followed the last Kite/Nacra worlds?

 

trust me, this format is not OK in any case, it's unfair to the best sailors and it adds absolutely nothing to the show

 

actually, the medal race of the Nacra class was transformed into a match race between  and  decided only by the start, because they were too good for the rest of the field and those medal races are also too short, 10 mins at max

 

when the TV broadcasters make any request on the competition format, you can be sure that it will only damage the sport and won't help neither the show and the space they will give to sailing in their schedule