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January 26, 2010
Miami, FL
Today was a bit of tough day for us at the 2010 US Sailing Rolex Miami OCR. We ended the day with an overall score of 4-2. We have one more race tomorrow morning to determine into which group we will advance. 
Trying Times
Photo: copyright Walter Cooper, January 2010
Because of yesterday's delay due to weather, group C didn't get to
race, so they had seven races to complete first thing this morning. Then group B went
out to do their final three races, which left us in a race against the sun
to finish our round. We had four races scheduled, but as we sailed across the finish
line of our third race, the sun was setting.
Our first race today was against Jen Provan from Canada. We controlled
her in the pre-start and led her around the course from there. The next
race was against Lotte Meldgaard, from Denmark. We had a great pre-start,
but were caught slightly slower at the gun. We tried to keep the race close upwind, but ended up rounding just behind her at the top mark. She
managed to hold on to the lead downwind, although we closed the distance downwind to round just behind her at the bottom mark. We tried to engage her again upwind, but she sailed a very tactically smart race and gained her lead back. From there despite our efforts, she held onto the lead and won
the race. We were a bit bummed at this point, but knew we had to refocus for
our next race.
Our next race was against ISAF World #1 ranked, Claire Leroy.
As we entered the race, my head wasn't cleared from the previous race.
Claire did a great job of capitalizing on this, and we ended up more down speed
than her. We also received a penalty for tacking too close. We ended up
being led off the line, and in the dying breeze, we couldn't quite get
anything back on her.
We were a bit disappointed about our losses, but learned from them, and are now looking forward to our race tomorrow morning. You can check out the results here. I would like to thank Carmeuse for their continued support for our campaign for the 2012 Olympics in London, England. And I would also like to thank USSTAG for their support. Sail Hard, Anna
Team Tunnicliffe
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Olympic Gold Medalist, World Class Woman Laser Radial Sailor And Now World Class Women's Match Racer
Representing the USA, Anna Tunnicliffe won the Gold Medal in the Women's Laser Radial dinghy at the 2008 Olympic Games in Qingdao, China. Anna was the ISAF world's Number One-ranked women's Radial sailor from April 9, 2008 to May 2010. She was voted 2009 & 2011 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year. Now Anna, skipper of Team Maclaren, has teamed up with Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer and Debbie Capozzi to take on the world and go for Gold in 2012 London Olympic Games in Women's Match Racing and the team is currently ranked #1 in the ISAF WMR rankings.
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