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Tara Pacheco and Berta Betanzos (ESP) won the Women's 470 World Championship at the 2011 ISAF Worlds and subsequently qualified their nation to the London 2012 Olympic Sailing competition. The pair will be one of the favourites to take Olympic gold and Pacheco is looking forward to the Olympics.
The test consists of lancing handmade wooden javelins from a predetermined line at a coconut situated between 7 & 9.5m above ground level atop a pole. The coconut is divided into 5 horizontal zones, with points on a scale of 2 to 10 being allocated in an ascending amount as one’s javelin strikes & holds higher up the coconut. Normally each competitor throws 8 javelins on 5 to 7 separate occasions. The pole is lowered after each round, and the coconut is removed and taken to the judges for verification of the points gained. Fresh coconut is then hoisted. The winner is the person or team which totals the greatest number of points:
Vittorio Bissaro e Silvia Sicouri ricevono direttamente a Malcesine, mentre sono impegnati per la Olimpic Week gardesana, il premio di Velisti dell'Anno 2015. L'audio è un po' disturbato dal vento: ma d'altronde, tra velisti... Il premio è stato assegnato in ex aequo con Roberto Tomasini Grinover