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OBE for Bill

Northern Irish sailor Bill O’Hara was given an OBE in the New Year Honours. O’Hara, 62, competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics, in the Finn, was RYA Northern Ireland Youth Performance Manager and is now a highly regarded international race official.

Olympic hopes

As Covid cases rose in Japan, head of the Tokyo Olympic organising committee Yoshiro Mori said in January: “All I can

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