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Mathew Belcher & Malcolm Page - Double Handed Olympic Men's Class - 470 | Issue 59 2012

Hi All,

For the first time together Malcolm and I have won the Semaine Olympique Francaise for 2012. This event was one of the most difficult events that we Check out our Support Wall !! have competed in together for some time. The conditions proved extremely challenging with the majority of the races being run in between 25-35 knots. In such a contrast to the last world cup where we sailed the majority of the races in light wind conditions, it was nice to have the same performance in the other end of the wind scale.

Most of you would have seen that on day one we broke our rig, while Click to like our fan page... leading and only the final reach remaining. We managed to finish this race in 24 but it was a disappointing start to the regatta for us. At the London Challenge 2012 Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page are members of the same time, we are pleased to have had this experience along with both Australian Team and are personally Victor and Malcolm nursing colds throughout as part of our supported by: Olympic preparations. No matter how much you want things to go your way sometimes things are just out of your control. The way we dealt God Father of London Challenge: John Bertrand AM with these adversities will only help us towards London. Principal Sponsors of London We are now enjoying a few days rest before resuming our training in Challenge 2012 Barcelona for the World Championships coming up in a couple of weeks time.

As always, thank you all for your support. Your help and encouragement makes every success along the way so much sweeter. We will also launch shortly our BelcherPage2012 supporters T-shirts towards the games so please look out for these.

Co - Sponsors of London Challenge All the best from Europe. 2012 Mat and Mal

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These supporters and sponsors in addition to the Australian Sailing Team supporters enable Mathew and Malcolm to compete on the world stage at the level required to defend Australia's Olympic Gold from .

We would also like to thank: Middle Harbour Yacht Club, North Sails Japan, Professional Investment Services, Ziegelmayer Boats, Southport Yacht Club, Photo by Victor Kovalenko Ronstan, Mackay Boats, Cawthorne Composites, Mum's and Dad's, friends and family, Lynn Fitzpatrick from World Regattas who is helping us raise the profile of sailing and ourselves, as well as the thousands of supporters following our journey:

Can't forget our wives for putting up with us being away so much.

The Australian Sailing Team (AST) is a program of Yachting Australia. The Australian Sailing Team is a large sponsor of Mat and Malcolm - London Challenge 2012 and is essential to their success in London 2012.

Photo by Victor Kovalenko A special thank you also to the AST Patrons.

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Photo by Victor Kovalenko

Photo by Victor Kovalenko

Photo taken from Semaine Olympique Francaise 2012 by official event photographer.

About Belcher & Page 2012

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Hours after Malcolm Page had won the 2008 Olympic gold medal in the Men's 470 discipline, he and Mathew Belcher discussed teaming up for a 2012 Olympic campaign. During the following year, the team only managed to fit 80 days of sailing around their demanding personal lives. Mat finished his business degree, Malcolm worked hard, they both got married. But before they knew it they were sitting down with their coach, Victor Kovalenko. Also known the "Medal Maker", Kovalenko has coached his teams to eight Olympic medals and thirteen 470 World Championship wins, including Belcher and Page's 2010 470 World Championship title.

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