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    HIGH WIRE ACT

    Apr 09, 2020 4 minutes

    Back in February, when Anna Burnet and her helm John Gimson became Nacra 17 world champions – and gained the #1 world ranking in the class – it was just six months to go until the Olympics and their world was looking good.

    The British pair had sent a message to the Nacra 17 fleet that as the Games approached, they were in top form – Olympic medal-winning form, unless something drastic happened.

    It did. Over the subsequent six weeks, Covid-19 laid waste to much of the 2020 regatta schedule, including the Olympics itself. The day after the postponement announcement, Burnet responded

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