After qualifying for the Olympics, we headed home for three days before we went to Dallas for the USOC Media Summit, a day filled with interviews and photo shoots. It was a great experience for Team Maclaren and we were all very amazed at how much the media knew about us and our sport. The event lasted three days, during which almost every Olympic sport was represented by at least one athlete, so it was also a great opportunity to meet other athletes on Team USA. In addition, the First Lady came and gave a speech supporting her campaign against Child Obesity. This gave us an opportunity to meet her and shake her hand.

We hopped right into training the day after we arrived and used day one to refresh our boathandling. For the next three days, we had Jimmy Spithill, ORACLERacing, in to offer some fresh thoughts on our sailing. It was very good to have another perspective on what we were doing, and we learned one or two new things too. After Jimmy left, we got in Dayne Sharpe for the remaining days of training. We again got a new perspective, an outsider's view. It was very helpful to learn his thoughts on our sailing - he has watched us a fair amount over the years - and he gave us some new ideas on which to work as well. Today was a day off for us as we rested up for a long week of sailing. We have 13 teams for this event, all the Olympic teams plus one. Racing starts at 10am tomorrow, but we have a bye the first race before hopping in for three races. You can follow the scores at the regatta website.

We would very much like to thank our Title Sponsor, Maclaren, our Gold Level Sponsors 11th Hour Racingand Laser Performance, and our Bronze Level Sponsors Carmeuse, Trinity Yachts, Chicago Match Race Center, and Sperry Top-Siderfor their continued support of our campaign for the 2012 Olympic Games. We would also like to thank St Francis Sailing Foundation, and US Sailing Team Sperry Top-Sider 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 to Sailing Foundation of New York, in the memo write 'Anna Tunnicliffe' and send to Sailing Foundation of New York (this one is tax deductible); or to Anna Tunnicliffe (via PayPal). (Please follow the links for more information. Thank you.)

Sail Hard,

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