Two of the top Americans in women's windsurfing are packing their wetsuits this week and traveling to New Zealand to compete in the RS:X world championships as part of
their training for the Beijing Summer Olympic Games.
This is not unusual for athletes preparing for the Games, but only one of the women, Nancy Rios, is slated to represent the United States next summer. The other woman,
Farrah Hall, is disputing the results of the team-selection trials in October. She contends that the results of an arbitration hearing in the winter will have her, not Rios, walking
in the opening ceremony.
To complicate matters, the women's windsurfing class is the only Olympic slot in sailing that the United States has yet to qualify for. There are 15 countries vying for seven
open slots in the Games. If Hall's case fails, she could be competing to earn Rios a spot in the Games.
The disputed incident at the windsurfing trials involved a collision at the start of the hotly contested last race. Rios and Hall were close on points and had begun racing when
another competitor, who did not have the right of way, crashed into them.
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