2024 Olympic Games: The sailing competitions off Marseille in the live ticker
YACHT-Redaktion
· 17.07.2024
Reporting on the Olympic sailing competitions is a special challenge. Hardly any other sailing event attracts such a large number of international journalists. Added to this are the special security precautions at the Games. The athletes and journalists are strictly separated from each other, unlike at Kiel Week, for example, where the protagonists can be intercepted at the slip ramp.
To get information, there is a mixed zone, often somewhere in the harbour on concrete in the sweltering heat. A fence separates the athletes from the reporters. It takes assertiveness and good contacts to be able to report what is happening on the water.
As the leading German-language sailing portal, YACHT online has a correspondent on site who will provide immediate results, experiences and anecdotes from the Olympic Games in this live ticker.
Our correspondent
Tatjana Pokorny - well known in the international regatta scene as tati - is a Hamburg-based journalist, author of nine books and sailing correspondent for the German Press Agency (DPA). Tatjana has worked for more than two and a half decades for Europe's leading sailing magazine YACHT in print and online and other national and international publications. She has covered eight Olympic Games since Barcelona 1992 and is in Marseille this summer for YACHT and YACHT online. Tatjana has covered all America's Cup editions since 2000, all Ocean Races since 1993/1994 and the Vendée Globe with Boris Herrmann. Her motto:
Sailing is like life under a magnifying glass, its protagonists are exciting, intelligent, refreshing and strong role models for society"
