East Devon Sailors Begin Their Bid to Win 2012 Olympics Place
Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › June 26, 2010
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Exmouth sailors Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes face a testing summer as they bid to impress the 2012 Olympics selectors in Weymouth in August. Echo Sport's Martin Downer caught up with them ahead of an important few months FROM world champions in 2007 to ninth in the Beijing Olympics, Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes suffered major disappointment in 2008. But with the 2012 London games approaching fast, the Exmouth pair have the perfect opportunity to make up for their Chinese chagrin.
They are boosted by the fact the Olympic sailing venue is in Weymouth, where they gained much of their 49er class education.See the full content of this document
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East Devon Sailors Begin Their Bid to Win 2012 Olympics Place
But they are hampered by the amount of competition they face for the one British place in that category for 2012.
Morrison and Rhodes, who learned to sail in the Exe estuary with Exe Sailing Club, will get their ...See the full content of this document
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