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Qingdao SailingThe 2008 Olympic Sailing Regatta was successfully held August 9th through the 21st at the Qingdao International Marina & Olympic Sailing Center with China winning its first gold medal in sailing.  The opening ceremony of the Sailing Regatta of the 29th Olympic Games was held at the Olympic Sailing Center located at the former Beihai dockyard in FuShan Bay adjoining Wusi (May 4th) Square and DongHai West Rd.  The 13th Paralympic Sailing Regatta was also held at the Qingdao International Marina & Olympic Sailing Center from September 8th through the 13th, 2008. 

The Olympic flame was kindled in Olympia at 11:00 a.m. (GMT +2), 24 March 2008, and after a global journey through Almaty, Istanbul, St. Petersburg, London, Paris, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Dar es Salaam, Muscat, Islamabad, New Delhi, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Canberra, Nagano, Seoul, Pyongyang, and Ho Chi Minh City, it arrived back in Hong Kong, China for its domestic route.  Qingdao citizens and travelers witnessed the Beijing Olympic torch “XiangYun” and the Olympic flame at various locations throughout Qingdao on July 21st, 2008.  A grand welcoming ceremony was held for the arrival of the Olympic flame & torch in Qingdao.  After the starting ceremony, in the morning, 138 Qingdao torchbearers and 34 guide-runners passed the torch across Qingdao city and then finally to LinYi (originally scheduled for RiZhao) in the afternoon.

The Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) 2008-2009 in which racers from around the world faced one of the hardest tasks in the sport of sailing, to sail around the world and make it to the finish alive, stopped at Qingdao's International Marina & Sailing Center on leg 4 from Singapore. 

The fleet of eight boats set sail from Alicante, Spain on the first offshore leg to Cape Town, South Africa on October 11th, 2008.  Telefonica Blue took first place in leg 4, the race to Qingdao, in one of the toughest race legs, after which boats got less than a month to make any repairs, compete in In-Port (IP) races, and plan for the next leg of their journey around South America to Rio De Janeiro which is the longest of the race at 12,300 nautical miles.
 
Sources:
www.sailing2008.org
torchrelay.beijing2008.cn
www.volvooceanrace.org

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Clipper 09-10 CrewSaturday May 31st, 2009

More than 300 new adventurous crew members from around the globe descended upon Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard on England’s south coast, eager to discover which of the ten internationally sponsored 68-foot Clipper yachts they would be racing onboard and who their skipper would be in the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Race.

These adventurous travelers, participating in the only event of its kind for non-professional sailors, came from all walks of life representing 30 nationalities and 225 professions ranging from housewives to lawyers, carpenters to chief executives.  Among them were those bestowed with the honor of representing China’s Sailing City of Qingdao in the demanding 35,000 nautical mile race around the world.

Already confirmed for Clipper 09-10 (Contested by ten identical stripped down 68-foot racing yachts, each sponsored by a city, region or country) are Hull & Humber, California , Qingdao, Uniquely Singapore, Cork, and Cape Breton Island.  The remaining four yachts will be named in the coming weeks prior to the race start from the Humber, on the east coast of England, on 13 September 2009.

The Clipper 09-10 Race, founded by sailing legend Sir Robin Knox-Johnston who was the first man to sail solo (non-stop) around the world, will be the seventh time teams of amateur sailors will circumnavigate the globe.
 

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