Britain's Yngling team takes sailing gold

Britain's three-woman Yngling team has taken the first sailing gold of the Beijing Games in strong winds and heavy rain, with the Netherlands clinching silver and Greece bronze after the first-ever Olympic sailing medal race. Two of the three on the British team — Sarah Ayton and Sarah Webb — defended their Yngling gold from 2004, with Pippa Wilson as third crew in Qingdao after she replaced Shirley Robertson of the Athens crew. Going into Sunday's medal race, the British women had a one point lead on the Dutch team of Mandy Mulder, Annemieke Bes and Merel Witteveen. However, the medal race, which counts double, turned into a battle between the British and the German trio of Ulrike Schuemann, Ute Hoepfner and... [read full story]