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Without racing on the opening day due to too much wind, the 2021 RS:X Windsurfing World Championship was kicked off yesterday with three races held in fresh winds. —– Kiran Badloe NED and Tom Reuveny ISR are tied for the lead in the mens rankings, with Byron Kokkalanis GRE and Piotr Myszka POL only one point behind in third and fourth places respectively. Pedro Pascual Suitt USA follows in 19th, Ignacio Berenguer MEX is 27th. —– Dutch lead in the womens race as well with Lilian De Geus NED. One point behind follows the Olympic champion Charline Picon FRA, and two points back are Zofia Noceti-Klepacka POL and Katy Spychakov ISR sharing the 3rd place. Farrah Hall USA is 17th, Demita Vega de Lille MEX 21st. —– All rankings and the video of the day.
There are only a handful of events that today accept an Open 50 as an entry. Examples are the Rhum Class of the Route du Rhum or the OSTAR. There aren’t any around the world events open to these boats. 
GOOD NEWS: Over the past 15 months, rangers in Kenya rescued nine giraffes stranded on a rapidly shrinking island. The piece of land on which the Rothschild’s giraffes were living had been cut off from the mainland after the lake’s water levels raised last year.
As an Olympic sport, sailing has always been problematic. It struggles to fit the fundamental “faster, higher, stronger” precept. There are just too many significant variables beyond the control of the athletes taking part, and too much reliance on complex – and fragile – equipment. Through more than a century of Olympic sailing we have seen scores of classes come and go. Many were hailed as the way of the future; most have lapsed into the backwaters of the sport, and even into extinction. (Seen many O-Jollies out there lately? Snowbirds? 15 metres?)
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