Weymouth, the seaside resort where British sailing star Ben Ainslie would like to win his fourth Olympic gold on Sunday, can boast it's share of history.

The Black Death plague first touched England's shores here in 1348. King George III spent several summers on the long, curving beach taking therapeutic saltwater dips in the English Channel. And the majority of American soldiers who landed in Normandy on D-Day shipped out from Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbor, the second-largest manmade harbor in the world.

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