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Last Updated: March 23, 2024, 00:01 IST
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Swiss SailGP Team’s Sebastien Schneiter is stepping away from the helm for the remainder of this season to give attention to successful an Olympic medal in crusing’s 49er class with Arno de Planta.
LONDON: Swiss SailGP Team’s Sebastien Schneiter is stepping away from the helm for the remainder of this season to give attention to successful an Olympic medal in crusing’s 49er class with Arno de Planta.
Geneva-based Schneiter stated he had handed the wheel of the Swiss F50 foiling catamaran to veteran co-driver Nathan Outteridge for the remainder of SailGP’s fourth season.
“It’s the best decision for Swiss SailGP Team and for my goal of winning an Olympic medal for Switzerland,” Schneiter stated forward of this weekend’s New Zealand SailGP.
In a packed yr for among the world’s prime sailors the SailGP season culminates in a $2 million winner-takes-all grand closing in San Francisco in July, simply weeks earlier than the beginning of the Paris 2024 Games.
“For the past 10 years I’ve been working towards this moment and this summer, with the Olympics in Marseille, I feel that this dream can become realistic if we keep working hard,” Schneiter stated in a press release on SailGP’s web site.
Schneiter stated that regardless of ending this month’s 49er World Championship in Lanzarote in sixth place, the early levels of the occasion had not gone as deliberate for the Swiss pair.
“Having a little challenge and not achieving our goals has allowed us to reflect and change our approaches, which has made us come out of it stronger,” he added.
After the Olympics, the crusing world’s focus will swap to New Zealand’s defence of the thirty seventh America’s Cup in Barcelona. Racing begins in late August and runs till October and contains the primary ladies’s occasion, in addition to a youth competitors.
Britain’s Ben Ainslie handed the helm of his SailGP F50 to double Olympic gold medallist Giles Scott in January in order that he may focus on his position as skipper of INEOS Britannia, the British challenger for the America’s Cup.
