470 European Championships - Leaders put the hammer down

5:00 AM Fri 3 Sep 2010 GMT

Open 470 European Championships. Istanbul produced sun, wind and waves for a spectacular day three of the event. With the warm wind pulsing from 15 to 20 knots, it also provided the medicine that some teams needed to haul themselves up from a shaky previous day's racing in the lighter, shiftier breezes. Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell, who opened their account with a black flag disqualification, won yesterday's following race. And then today in the big breeze the Brits put the hammer down to fire in three bullets in their qualifying fleet. Yesterday was a similar story for Italian girls, ...

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