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Sailing: Strength, smarts, stamina
by Paulina Neshybova

Mike Leigh is both Australian and Canadian Laser Champion. He uses the smallest fleet used also in Olympic. He has been doing this sport since he was seven years old. He is now 23 and sailing is for him everything, to be concrete & now a full-time job. He is very canny and there are often situations when other sailors would be in the water, he still sails as if the boat was connected to him. During his career he has been racing in many countries across Europe, or in Canada, and also in China where will the next Olympics be held.Sailors need to be in constant training, because it deserves many physical abilities ( strength, stamina) as well as mental preparations such as smarts and good tactics. Mike also does not have a problem with losing weight as many others do and he tries to keep it on a normal side. Now it is easy to see which player was trying to lose weight constantly and which will have problems.For Mike Leight sailing became a personal development by which he can gain many new experience. He is now ranked No. 5 and his attitude since the Youth World Championships has changed. He made a few mistakes, which were so serious, for instatnce as missing the start, that he could not win.Now he is training very hard for the Olympics and he hopes to get a medal. His tactics has changed a lot and now is is training in Warnemunde, Germany. At the Olympics every type of boat will have to race twice a day, but of course everything will depend on the weather, mainly wind conditions.

by Paulina Neshybova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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