FLAMES ON THE TRACK

A complex period of build quality and ample customer availability of these products will now be monitored until the end of 2021 to ensure their final sign-off by the IKA and World Sailing, but more immediately all eyes focused in on the first real test results to come in from this season’s events in Poland and Austria that mirrored the Olympic relay format.

All of this, of course, set against the trials and tribulations of training and travel in a summer plagued by Covid cancellations. The race to Paris 2024 has already opened a new and very exciting chapter for kite sports, themed by the fact that only a complete dedication will suffice on and off the track.

Progress is always painful. But when the prize is Olympic gold at kiteboarding’s debut at the 2024 Paris Games the stakes for the foil and kite makers vying to take the podium’s top step just got vertiginously higher.

Add to the mix a hard deadline for