Laser World Championships - Slingsby holds his lead as black flags fly

12:35 AM Sat 4 Sep 2010 GMT

'Slingsby heading out for a race start on day five.' Michael Blackburn Click Here to view large photo

Tom Slingsby continues to lead the fleet at the 2010 Laser World Championship after a tricky opening day of finals racing where nine sailors, including Australia's two-time World Champion were disqualified from the opening race. After a number of general recalls to start the day the race committee raised the black flag meaning that any boats over the line before the next start would be disqualified and plenty of key players were caught out including Slingsby, reigning Olympic champion Paul Goodison from Great Britain and leaders from earlier in the week Kiwi Michael Bullot and Croatian Luka Radelic. 'There was ...

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