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Human Interest
This Article Last Updated: Oct 14th, 2010 - 15:13:49
Courtesy Scuttlebutt Europe and Sabina Mollart-Rogerson www.medcup.org:
Swiss Join the Audi Medcup
(see also Star Sailors for the 2009 Audi MedCup Circuit)
Swiss Olympic Star sailor Flavio Marazzi and Germany's four times Olympic medallist Jochen Schuemann will combine forces under the Marazzi Sailing colours to become the 13th entry on this season's 2009 Audi MedCup Circuit.
Star campaigner Marazzi, who finished fifth in 2008 in Qingdao and fourth in Athens and is looking ahead to 2012 the Olympic regatta at Weymouth and Portland, England has formed the Audi MedCup Circuit's first Swiss team, sailing under the flag of the Gstaad Yacht Club, forming the biggest Swiss sailing project since America's Cup winning Alinghi.
Marazzi will skipper and helm the TP52, which finished fourth overall last season as Geneva based Swedish businessman Torbjorn Tornqvist's Artemis. The team, under the guidance of Schuemann and Finn Olympic bronze medallist John Cutler, includes well known Swiss sail trimmer Christian "Blumi" Scherrer, an America's Cup winner with Alnghi in Auckland, and Marazzi's Star crew Enrico de Maria.
Since taking on the boat the team have managed to complete six days of intensive training off Valencia prior to final training before the first Audi MedCup Circuit event, the City of Alicante Trophy regatta starts next week.
Private individuals are backing this new Swiss TP52 project from the Gstaad Yacht Club. The team's ambitious objective is to generate further interest and backing from this first event with a top finishing place as the catalyst to secure the future participation of the highly motivated Swiss team through additional partners and sponsors.
RIGHT TO PLAY is the social partner of the MarazziSailing team. It is an international humanitarian organisation, which uses games and sports programmes around the world to help children suffering from war, poverty and illnesses, in order to promote their health and education and to improve their quality of life in a sustainable way.
Flavio Marazzi, who has children, has been an ambassador of RIGHT TO PLAY for several years. -- Sabina Mollart-Rogerson
www.medcup.org
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