Our team just finished a great event in Palma de Mallorca, Spain at the Princess Sofia Trophy Regatta. We have lots of things to be excited about from that event, but one of the stories that might get lost in the lead up to the 2012 Games is the rapid improvement of Laser sailor Charlie Buckingham. Charlie did not win selection to represent the USA at the 2012 Games. Rob Crane did, and Rob is working very hard and will represent us well later this year.

As we are now less than 106 days from the Olympic Games and 139 days from the Paralympic Games, we start to check off the goals we set four years ago for our development and training. 

The final day of racing at Princess Sofia Trophy Regatta brought gold and silver to US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics. Anna Tunnicliffe's "Team Maclaren" of Molly Vandemoer and Debbie Capozzi won the final match against Claire Leroy (FRA) to win the gold medal in women's match racing, while Zach Railey won silver in the Finn. In the Laser medal race, US Sailing Development Team member Charlie Buckingham captured the 4th place overall.

Before heading to Europe for the Spring/Summer training season, we broke down the upcoming events on the international calendar.

With a narrow one-point margin from the 2.4mR podium in Palma last week, Mark LeBlanc talks about his performance, finishing in fourth, and his Paralympic Games preparation.