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Windgirls, celebrate! Having spent a year and a half in Munich, and now sitting in my new office in Vienna instead of travelling the world, I still stay in touch with the windsurfing scene through the internet. Doing so, I am astounded by the level of female freestyle windsurfing. When I think of the days when a vulcan made your heat, I almost can't believe how many girls have picked up windsurfing lately and how fast new talents translate their freesailing skills into competition results - especially in freestyling.   On one hand, there is chicks like Sarah-Quita Offringa, who demonstrated her tremendously slick moves last year on Lanzarote and Laure Treboux, who beat every single sailor at least once on Gran Canaria or Fuerteventura at her worldcup debut. And we should not forget quite some more who have trained hard, like Venezuelan Yoli de Brendt and Greek Evi Tsape who can now make it up the ladder against the more settled ones like Silvia Alba or Nayra Alonso, whereas Steffi Wahl and Uli Hoelzl are getting closer to the waveriding elite. Frontloops, Spocks, Grubbies, Shove-it and variations are becoming standard moves Sweden seems to turn into girls paradise with the likes of Nina and Marie Tjernberg, Anna Joensson and Emma Johansson really going for it. Japan is well represented with Nagoshi and Nishida, Germany has a new face in the worldcup with Britta Kuehn, and there is even a Russian citizen with Olga Malysheva. It's still Spain that would win a team ranking, followed by Switzerland (Jaggi and Treboux) but the women's worldcup is becoming more colorful and also more captivating every year. I strongly believe even Daida - used to win 9,9 of 10 heats - likes this new challenge. Windgirls best online sports mag On the other hand but at the same time, windgirls.com producer and journalist Andy Aichinger has been given the award of the Austrian association of sports journalists in the category "Online". Congratulations for making the online mag that helps girls all around the world to stay tuned, no matter whether they are on the water or in the office! Windgirls, it is time to celebrate!!! posted by Anonymous at 8/03/2006 12:01:00 PM |
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