When racing starts Monday on Mallorca’s famous Bay of Palma at the giant 51 Trofeo Sofia Mallorca, the first Hempel World Cup Series regatta will usher in a whole new era for Olympic classes sailing. Of the ten classes set to race this week, five are new to the roster of classes which will race at the Paris 2024 Olympics. It is an appropriately big stage, an exciting return as the first major Olympic classes regatta since 2019 welcomes the debut of the high speed, high octane iQFOiL, men’s and women’s foiling windsurfing fleets, the men’s and women’s foiling Formula Kite fleets and, for the first time, the mixed 470 two person dinghy.
Sourced from sailing.org. This is a third-party race report — not a personal diary entry.
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