To begin with, NBC sports has made a conscious decision not to cover sailing. Further, with the exception of newspapers who have sailors from their area in the Olympics -- and maybe not even these -- news will be in short supply. There may be some Associated Press coverage, but it normally is limited to who finished first, second and third in each class.

Here are some of the where you can find Olympic sailing coverage: Yachting Magazine SavaNews International Yacht Racing Union US Sailing Sailing World Magazine Atlantic Journal Constitution

The International Olympic Committee has a site and so does NBC, however few expect much sailing coverage there.

Yachting Magazine has also been active in providing up dates on the Sailing News groups.

The America's Cup winner Stars & Stripes was the first boat to cross the finish during the 89^th running of the Chicago Yacht Club's Chicago to Mackinac Race.

With an lapsed time of 29 hours, 35 minutes and 28 seconds, Stars & Stripes completed the race at 11:50 p.m. Eastern time. Because the Yacht was racing in a special exhibition only multihull class it receives no official honors.

The official First to Finish award goes to Dick Jennings' Pied Piper. Pied Piper finished the race at 4:48 a.m. Monday with a lapsed time of 36 hours, 55 minutes, and 30 seconds.

The First to Finish honor which is awarded as the Royono Trophy and has no bearing on the overall winners. Overall winners are determined once the bulk of the fleet finishes and the competing boat's handicaps have been calculated.

America True: The San Francisco Challenge has become the latest American syndicate to challenge for the next America's Cup three and a half years from now. Of great interest is that for the first time ever, the CEO of the syndicate is a woman. Dawn Riley is the top executive officer and she brings both organizational and sailing skills to the group.

The sailing team will be "coed" according to Riley, and thus far no helmsperson has been named. Olympian Jeff Madrigali, America³ helmswoman Leslie Egnot and Merritt Carey have joined the team and Buddy Melges is acting as an advisor to the syndicate.

Pact2000, backed by the New York Yacht Club and several other Yacht Clubs--was the first U.S. challenger and will be skippered by Ed Baird. Pact was followed into the arena by another San Francisco club, St. Francis, which has named Paul Cayard as its helmsman.

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