Laser Worlds Day 5: Black flags - close calls for leaders

6:45 PM Fri 3 Sep 2010 GMT

'Tom Slingsby,AUS 197541 - Laser Worlds 2010 Day 5' Paul Wyeth / RYA

Laser World Championships 2010. Tom Slingsby may have emerged from an emotionally bruising first pair of high octane Finals races at the Laser World Championships off Hayling Island, with his overall lead all but intact, but the world title winner from 2007 and 2008 is left with no further margin for error after he was caught out as one of the many black flag transgressors at the first start of day. But almost incredibly, Australian Slingsby was in good company when, sin-binned for being over the line during a previous start attempt, he then had to sit out the first ...

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by Lindsay Bell