‘HAVE A STEADY FIRST DAY’
Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre are looking in great shape to defend the Women’s 470 Olympic title that Mills won with Saskia Clark at Rio 2016. Having previously won silver and bronze medals at the previous two 470 World Championships, Mills and McIntyre were gunning for the gold at this summer’s Worlds in Japan – and they got it. With barely a pause between regattas, they and the rest of the 470 fleet quickly moved on to Ready Steady Tokyo, the Olympic Test Regatta. After a very solid qualifying regatta they entered the final day ready to go into a match race for gold with the French team in the Medal Race. Unfortunately, Mills and McIntyre started a fraction too soon and as they turned back to restart they knew that the gold had got away. Still, a silver medal hot on the heels of victory at the Worlds has set them up nicely for the final run-in to Tokyo 2020.
Tokyo will be Mills’s third Games, while for McIntyre it will be her first. However, McIntyre has
