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This Monday: Q&A Live Call with Tom King - From 40th to Olympic Champion in 3 years

by Andy Rice 22 May 2022 16:55 BST 16 May 2022
Q&A Live Call with Tom King: From 40th to Olympic Champion in 3 years © Sailjuice.com

In the mid-90s Tom King was a reasonable but not spectacular 470 helmsman. However, when Victor Kovalenko joined the Australian Sailing Team as the 470 coach, things started to change. With his crew Mark Turnbull, Tom's world championship finishes progressed from 40th to 20th to tenth to first place.

After three years they had turned from journeymen to world beaters, even winning all three races on one particular day of the World Championship in 2000. They went on to win Olympic gold on Sydney Harbour later on the same year.

These days Tom is a high-flying lawyer, but the Road To Gold crew - Hamish Willcox and Andy Rice - will be transporting Tom back to his high-flying sailing career. Earlier this week we spoke to RS:X Olympic Champion Tom Ashley about his 'Train Hard, Fight Easy' techniques.

On the next 60-minute Q&A we'll continue the theme, digging into the 'Train Hard, Fight Easy' techniques that Victor has proven to be so successful not just with Tom and Mark, but with many other Olympic Champions from Ukraine and Australia.

HOW DO I SIGN UP (FOR FREE)?

It's free to get live access to the call, all you need to do is sign up here at www.roadtogold.net. It takes less than 30 seconds.

We'll give you a heads-up on our Facebook Group too, see details below.

WHEN?

The Q&A kicks off on Zoom at 0900 hours UK time/ 2000 hours NZ time on Wednesday 25 May.

HOW?

Join Zoom Meeting with Tom King
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Meeting ID: 864 0816 8683
Passcode: 221506

Make sure you're signed up to the Road To Gold Facebook Group to get further info on the call. www.facebook.com/groups/roadtogoldsquad

It's free the join the call Live, but if you can't make it live you can get downloadable recordings of this session and other Road To Gold Q&As by following the link below and subscribing to the calls at a very favourable rate:

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www.roadtogold.net/p/calls

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