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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Lewis sails on with new coach

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Olympic sailor An­drew Lewis is re­vamp­ing his train­ing tech­nique in prepa­ra­tion for par­tic­i­pa­tion in pre-Olympic qual­i­fy­ing event now tak­ing place around the world, as he works to se­cure a place for T&T in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly worked with a coach from Pe­ru, Lewis was now in the care of an Ital­ian.

In a G-Sport in­ter­view, he said, "This is some­thing com­plete­ly op­po­site from what I used to do. I used to work with a South Amer­i­can coach in Pe­ru, now I am work­ing with an Ital­ian. The Eu­ro­pean style is to­tal­ly dif­fer­ent from the South Amer­i­can style. I would say it's very mil­i­tary-like; a day-to-day pro­gramme, which is set in stone. And, it has a very nice pro­gres­sion to it."

He added, "I nev­er had a pro­gramme like this. I am re­al­ly look­ing for­ward to see­ing how this turns out. I've been feel­ing ex­cel­lent. I have had a lot of pos­i­tives com­ing of it so far."

Lewis, through his re­la­tion­ship with Amer­i­can laser sailor Char­lie Buck­ing­ham, trav­elled to Long Beach, Cal­i­for­nia, where he joined the Unit­ed States train­ing camp for two months in prepa­ra­tion for the World Cham­pi­onships, which took place in San­tander, Spain, back in Sep­tem­ber. That event marked the start of qual­i­fi­ca­tion events for Rio Olympics 2016.

Of that ex­pe­ri­ence, he said "You don't get in­to jar with these guys very of­ten. It's a big priv­i­lege for a small guy like me from T&T to join the Amer­i­cans. They re­alised my tal­ent in the light-wind, which they were still work­ing to mas­ter. Sim­i­lar­ly, I want­ed to achieve their tech­nique when deal­ing with heavy winds. We have a lit­tle bit to get from each oth­er. We are com­pet­i­tive, but we are very good friends and the on­ly way to get bet­ter is train­ing with the best. We've got to take what we can from each oth­er and may the best man win," he said.

Apart from that train­ing camp, Lewis de­scribed his US tour ex­pe­ri­ences for 2014 as "suc­cess­ful," hav­ing achieved top ten places in al­most all of his races, leav­ing him in a good com­pet­i­tive po­si­tion.

Lewis said, "That's where I need to be right now. My goal is to con­sis­tent­ly be in the top ten to be able to tar­get medals. I am hit­ting my tar­get which is nice and I am im­prov­ing as much as I can. I went to Eu­rope to do some meets. I suf­fered an in­jury, but every­thing is good now. I fin­ished off the tour very well with some top five races, which is what I need­ed to be do­ing. Even­tu­al­ly, it would be the top three and then the medals start to come."


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