Sailing Olympic sports London 2012

700 athletes and 550 officials will stay at the Sailing Village during the Olympic Games, with approximately half that number using the accommodation during the Paralympic Games.The Osprey Quay development, which will contain 84 residential units, will house competitors and team officials taking part in the London 2012 Sailing events in Weymouth and Portland Sir Keith Mills, Deputy Chair of LOCOG and Councillor Graham Winter, Mayor of Weymouth and Portland joined site workers and local residents at the Village today to thank them for their work and to showcase how a finished apartment will look during the Games.'Exciting milestone'Athletes will eat in a temporary dining hall which will be constructed on the site, and have a social area in the new Chesil Cove Foundation School which LOCOG will take temporary ownership of in May. Sir Keith Mills, LOCOG Deputy Chair said: ‘This is an exciting milestone with less than six months until we welcome the first athletes and Sailing officials to Weymouth and Portland. The Sailing Village will be a fantastic facility for the athletes, but just as importantly after the Games this will be a development with both affordable and low carbon housing on offer.’After the Sailing competitions have finished this summer the apartments will be converted into homes with 25% of the housing made available to a registered landlord for social housing needs. All the residential units are low carbon with the heating and hot water for 58 of the homes coming from a biomass heating system and many of the houses fitted with rainwater harvesting systems.

In competitive sailing, athletes complete courses in as short a time as possible, harnessing the wind in their sails for maximum speed.
There are three disciplines – match racing (one against one), fleet racing (mass start) and windsurfing – and 10 classes of boat.
Crew sizes vary from one to three, with Laser, Laser Radial, Finn and RS-X classes featuring one sailor; the 470, 49er and Star featuring two and the women’s match racing, three.
Competitors contest 10 races (15 for the 49er) with points awarded depending on finishing positions in each race (1 point for first, 41 for 41st). Each boat is allowed to discard its worst score and the ten boats with the lowest accumulated scores qualify for the medal race, where points scored are doubled and added to the opening series’ scores to decide the top 10 positions.
In match racing, the first boat across the line wins the match. Teams compete against each other in a series of round robin matches, with the top teams progressing to the final knockout stages.
Events / disciplines
(Match racing, fleet racing and windsurfing)
Men’s finn
Women’s Elliott 6m
Men’s star
Men’s 49er
Men’s laser
Women’s laser radial
Men’s RS:X, women’s RS:X
Men’s 470, women’s 470
Gold medals available
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