Bassadone Clark - 470 Olympic Sailing Blog

The rest of Team GB are down in Macau at a Holding Camp, our sailing managers decided though that this was a bit too far to go and so we did the short flight to Shanghai to have time away from the boats, time to relax and focus on the coming weeks.

We had the added bonus of being in Shanghai, while our measurement was taking place. Olympic Games measurement is notorious for being very picky and meticulous and particularly stressful, so our team's technical man and Morgan our coach opted to stay behind and get our boat through and keep us well out of the way. All was well though and she went through without any difficulties.

In Shanghai we stayed in a blinging hotel and alongside some team meetings about Games operations we had time to train, relax and general messing about, with a bit of beach volleyball thrown in and despite having all the gear none of the other hotel guests would believe that we were infact Team GB's beach volleyball team- quite insulting!!