Lisa Darmanin
South Africa's Olympic soccer team members, wearing face masks, leave the training venue in Chiba, east of Tokyo, Monday, July 19, 2021. Two South African soccer players have become the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19. The Tokyo Games open on Friday. (Kyodo News via AP)
Medal predictions for events at the Tokyo Olympics

Jul. 19, 2021 05:57 AM EDT

In this photo provided by SailGP, date not known, Nina Curtis poses for a portrait in Hamilton, Bermuda. Curtis has been picked to join the defending champion Australian SailGP team for the rest of the season as part of a developmental program designed to bring women into the global league. Curtis, who won a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics and sailed with Team Brunel on the final five legs of the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race, beat out Lisa Darmanin in a training camp during the season-opening regatta in Bermuda two weeks ago. (Bob Martin/SailGP via AP)
Top Aussie female sailor Curtis picked to join SailGP squad

By Bernie Wilson May. 06, 2021 08:58 PM EDT

In this photo provided by Sail GP are Nina Curtis, left, and Lisa Darmanin, right, posing with helmsman and CEO Tom Slingsby at Sydney Harbour Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Australia. Four years ago, the closest Australian Olympic sailing medalists Darmanin and Curtis could get to the America's Cup was by taking jobs in a hospitality lounge on site in Bermuda. They'll be back in Bermuda in just a few days, this time with the defending champion Australian team in SailGP as part of a developmental program designed to fast-track the inclusion of women into the global league. (SailGP via AP)
Darmanin, Curtis chosen to try to make Aussie SailGP team

By Bernie Wilson Apr. 07, 2021 07:14 PM EDT

This photo provided by SailGP shows Australia SailGP skipper Tom Slingsby in Sydney, Australia on Feb. 6, 2021. The women sailed WASZP one-person foiling dinghies, giving Slingsby the chance to assess their potential ability on the 50-foot foiling catamarans used in SailGP. Slingsby said. "There's a lot of training ahead. We've seen some amazing male sailors who have been dropped out of SailGP because they just couldn't keep up. By no means is it going to be easy, but I just think it's great to give them the opportunity for them to come and live and train with team and see what it's all about and then if they're good enough, they'll make it." (Beau Outteridge/SailGP via AP)
Aussie sailor could be going for cousin's job on SailGP boat

By Bernie Wilson Feb. 12, 2021 03:27 AM EST