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Ben Ainslie interviews (6)

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Daily Telegraph
by Caroline Shearing
25 September 2008

Sailing legend Ben Ainslie talks about childhood holidays in Greece and exploding suncream.

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Sunday Times
31 August 2008

Ben Ainslie happy to shoot the breeze.

Olympic sailing legend Ben Ainslie on letting his hair down in Beijing, John Major and his plans for gold at London 2012

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Ben Ainslie

The Sun
by Ian Mcgarry
28 August 2008

Ainslie's 2012 Olympics hell.

BEN AINSLIE has admitted: I may have to miss being part of Team GB at London 2012.

The Olympic triple gold medal-winner is desperate to compete in the America’s Cup, the world’s biggest sailing event, which could clash with the Games in four years’ time.

Ainslie, dubbed Britain’s most successful sailor ever, just hopes it is a choice he will not have to make.

He said: “At the moment, I don’t know if I’ll definitely compete at 2012.

“I would love to and missing out is not something I’m thinking about too seriously at the moment.

“But the America’s Cup is also a big ambition of mine. And if the two events clashed in 2012, I would have to think seriously about what to do. ...

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Ben Ainslie

The Guardian
by Donald McRae
5 August 2008

'I see no point in anything but winning'
Ben Ainslie, the third British hopeful in our series, talks about his ambition to win three sailing golds in a row

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Ben Ainslie

Observer Sport Monthly
by Jon Henderson
27 July 2008

Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, on 5 February 1977, Ben Ainslie has won gold at the past two Olympics, having taken silver at the 1996 Games aged only 19. He has also won nine world titles and is an America's Cup sailor. He will race in the Finn class in Beijing.

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Ben Ainslie

The Guardian
by Tom Lutz
15 March 2007

The double Olympic gold-medallist talks high-performance boats, killer whales and George Galloway

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