Games selection hold-off pending appeal

THE Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) is not prepared to consider the selection of Star class sailors Peter O’Leary and Stephen Milne for this year’s Games pending the outcome of an appeal against their nomination lodged by Max Treacy and Anthony Shanks.

The ISA, the national governing body for sailing and boating in Ireland, were due to parade their nominations for the Olympic sailing regatta at the Royal Irish Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire today but that function has been postponed to a later date.

O’Leary, from the RCYC, and Milne, who sails out of Belfast Lough, were nominated by the ISA for the Olympic Games Sailing Competition in Quingado following the Star World Championships at the Coral Reef Yacht Club in Miami where they finished second Irish boat behind Treacy and Shanks.