What is America One Racing?

Does the lawsuit filed by US Sailing against America One and three of its principals and employees have you asking, what is America One? If so, one of its principles, Paul Cayard, offered this explanation in his January 2024 column for Seahorse magazine:

Earlier this year (in 2023), when US Sailing’s high-performance coaching team dissolved, most supporters were concerned about how to make sure there wouldn’t be any gaps in our USA athlete support. To that end, the Board of Directors of the American One Foundation, the longest and largest private supporter of US Sailing, stepped up once again to provide support by forming America One Racing (AIR).

AIR hired the departing high-performance team who, along with 15 contract coaches, have traveled all over the world providing over 1,000 coaching days, run clinics, and generally supported over 60 highly motivated USA sailing athletes at different levels. Thanks to passionate donors during 2023, AIR has been able to provide $2million in coaching, logistics, and financial support to athletes.

Nine months in, America One Racing is growing nicely and still working hard to increase its budget for 2024 to support more and more USA athletes. One of A1R’s primary partners, American Magic, not only supports USA athletes but also serves as great inspiration for all who have high-level sailing ambitions.

Importantly, the US trials for Olympic Sailing will be held in Miami in January and February of 2024. This marks the first time in 12 years that the USA will conduct its selection regatta in the USA. This is a big step forward in the process of building depth here at home. America One Racing is about ‘doing’ and lots more needs to be done!

Editor’s note: Over a third of the 43 entrants that competed at the US Olympic Team Trials in January listed America One Racing as a sponsor.

Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Program*:
Men’s One Person Dinghy – ILCA 7 (41)
Women’s One Person Dinghy – ILCA 6 (41)
Mixed Two Person Dinghy – 470 (19)
Men’s Skiff – 49er (20)
Women’s Skiff – 49erFX (20)
Men’s Kiteboard – Formula Kite Class (20)
Women’s Kiteboard – Formula Kite Class (20)
Men’s Windsurfing – iQFOiL (24)
Women’s Windsurfing – iQFOiL (24)
Mixed Multihull – Nacra 17 (19)
* Quota per event in parenthesis but does not include Universality Places (2 men, 2 women)

Venue: Marseille, France
Dates: July 28-August 9

Details:
• Paris website: https://www.paris2024.org/en/the-olympic-games-paris-2024/
• World Sailing microsite: https://paris2024.sailing.org/