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The close and competitive racing that exists throughout the Elliott 5.9 fleet has attracted a healthy number of boats for this weekend's fourth round of the Elliott 5.9 Traveller Series, with at least 15 boats descending on the Bucklands Beach Yacht Club.
The New Zealand sailing team will return home later today from the Tokyo Olympics with mixed emotions following a challenging regatta.
Finishing fourth at an Olympics Games is one of the hardest things for any competitor and Paul Snow-Hansen and Dan Willcox were hurting after missing out on a medal by the narrowest of margins today, but they will also look back on their regatta with immense pride.
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke remember competing at the 2012 London Olympics and noticing how glum many of those who secured silver seemed.
The standings from the Nacra 17 class at the Tokyo Olympics will say Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson finished 12th overall but it doesn't come close to telling the full story.
Most of the New Zealand sailors have felt like they've gone a few rounds with a heavyweight boxer over the last few days but three crews are ready to come off the ropes and chase an Olympic medal.
Peter Burling and Blair Tuke will on Monday pull on the leader's yellow bibs for the first time at these Tokyo Olympics and it has come at just the right time.
Sailors often talk about light-wind days as a game of snakes and ladders and a couple of New Zealand crews hooked onto ladders at the Tokyo Olympics today.
It was a very nearly day for many of the New Zealand sailing crews today but a number of them are still in medal contention heading into the business end of the Olympic regatta.
