The hard climb for Charlotte Rose

Following her Olympic Trials defeat, ILCA 6 hopeful Charlotte Rose goes all in once again, this time for LA 2028. Story by Alison Chenard for Sailing World:

She won the most races of any ILCA 6 competitor at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials. She’s only 25 years old, but with two back-to-back Youth World Champion titles to her name, she’s a respected force in one of the most competitive sailing classes in the world. Her name is Charlotte Rose, and a heartbreaking defeat in the lead-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics tempted her to walk away from sailing—forever.

It’s a feeling most will never experience: a brutal, cold, sterile “no” to everything you’ve worked toward for at least four years, sometimes your whole life. Arriving at the honor of representing one’s country and hopefully standing on a podium requires a fierce core belief in oneself that’s crafted by years of introspection and the encouragement of friends, family and coaches. It’s not a goal made lightly, and the risk of it all washing away with the result of one regatta takes another kind of strength to open oneself up to the possibility.

“To have it slip through [my] fingers is a pain that will sit with me for the rest of my career,” Rose wrote on social media a week after the Olympic Trials concluded. – Full report

Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Sailing Program (July 16-28):
First Week – July 16-20
Men’s Kiteboard – Formula Kite Class – Long Beach, CA
Women’s Kiteboard – Formula Kite Class – Long Beach, CA
Men’s Windsurfing – iQFOiL – Long Beach, CA
Women’s Windsurfing – iQFOiL – Long Beach, CA

Second Week – July 23-28
Men’s One Person Dinghy – ILCA 7 – Los Angeles, CA
Women’s One Person Dinghy – ILCA 6 – Los Angeles, CA
Mixed Two Person Dinghy – 470 – Los Angeles, CA
Men’s Skiff – 49er – Los Angeles, CA
Women’s Skiff – 49erFX – Los Angeles, CA
Mixed Multihull – Nacra 17 – Los Angeles, CA

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