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August 13, 2011 
Photo: (c) 2011 Chicago Cup, CMRC
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had one race this morning against Don Wilson to make the top eight.
There was a tight fight between four teams for three spots. We had a
good start to the left of him and were able to just pinch him off right
before layline. We both tacked over to port tack, with him to leeward
and us to windward. We were slowly inching forward on him, but he
luffed us at the right time and was able to slow us enough and get
around the mark ahead of us. Downwind, we were quite fast and sailed
the shifts well to squeak inside of them at the leeward mark and from
there, went on to win the race. This win put us into the final eight.
Racing started shortly thereafter, with our first race against William Tiller (NZL). We had an even start with him but he caught a shift up the beat that we didn't get and he extended a few lengths from us at the top mark. Again, we had great speed downwind and were able to pull in the distance and rounded right on his tail. Upwind was a similar story where he pulled out a lead in the shifty conditions. But again downwind, we pulled back and just lost the race by a few feet right at the finish line. From there we had three more races before the storms blew in and cancelled racing for the day. We had a 1-2 record in those races. Racing continues tomorrow (Sunday) morning at 9am. The forecast is for 15-25mph winds which should make for some more interesting racing since most of our racing has been done in 12 kts or less. You can follow the racing live on the regatta website: http://chicagocup.org/ and also check out the results. We would very much like to thank our Title Sponsor, Maclaren, our Gold Level Sponsors 11th Hour Racing and Laser Performance, and our Bronze Level Sponsors Carmeuse, Trinity Yachts, and Chicago Match Race Center for their continued support of our campaign for the 2012 Olympic Games. We would also like to thank US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics (USSTAG) and its sponsors for their continued support. Also, thank you to our private donors. Please remember that any and all donations/contributions to our campaign should be made payable directly to either The Sailing Foundation of New York (tax deductible) memo'd Anna Tunnicliffe, or to Anna Tunnicliffe. Sail Hard,
Anna
Team Maclaren
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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.
