Andy Rice

‘WHEN YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE ALL-UP WEIGHT OF THE BOAT AND BOTH SAILORS, 4KG IS NOTHING’

Sailing is a weight obsessed sport and it’s hard to pretend otherwise. I was reminded of this when interviewing Jo Aleh recently. Along with her fellow Kiwi Polly Powrie on the trapeze, Jo won 470 Olympic gold at London 2012 followed by a hard-won back-from-the-dead silver at Rio 2016. The inverse opposite of Great Britain’s Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark who won silver and gold the other way round.

Apart from coming from opposite sides