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“World Cup Win Kiel Straight...”

Its been a good few weeks for me, finishing with an amazing regatta in Kiel where I won the third World Cup event in a row, winning every race to discard a 1st!!! I left for Sweden Three weeks ago for some training at this years Europeans venue Landskrona. It is a pretty interesting venue sailing...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 1 day ago

“World Cup Win Holland”

After a couple of weeks training in Weymouth it was off to Holland for the next World Cup event. The week before I left I was delivered a new shiny Volvo XC60 for the trip, its a pretty cool car that does pretty much everything!!! It even beeps at me when I forget to indicate to change lanes (dont ask...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison about 5 hours ago

“World Cup Win Hyere”

I traveled to Hyere a week early to try and get some hours on the water training. I was there with out a coach so spent most of the time training with the foreigners racing. It was nice to get back into the swing of things and the weather was nearly perfect with a mixture of winds and bright sunshine...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison about 8 hours ago

“Cold Racing”

It was off to Highcliffe this weekend for the second qualifier of the year. I had been training there with the squad for a few days prior to the Q which had been pretty windy. Saturday was much the same as we set out for racing, windy and pretty chilly. The Northwesterly reaching up to 25 knots gave...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison less than a minute ago

“A Trip to the Palace and back...”

Last week I had a busy week before the first race of the year at Stokes Bay. The week started taking a BBC presenter and some school kids sailing back at home in Rotherham, it was nice to get out on the water with some school kids that had never sailed before. The weather was gorgeous but unfortunately...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison about 1 hour ago

“Fitness Camp”

Getting Back in Shape I finally returned home last night after a fitness camp in Austria. I joined several other members of the sailing team for a intense week of training at the BOA lodge in Austria. We had quite a strict program each day consisting of at least 2 activities. The training was aimed...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison about 1 month ago

“Paul Goodison MBE”

It was a great privilege to be recognised in the new years honours list and be awarded an MBE. I received a letter at the beginning of December asking me if I would like to accept the award. The letter came with strict instructions that I wasn’t allowed to tell anybody until the list was released...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison about 1 month ago

“BBC Yorkshire Sports Person...”

It has been a busy few weeks. I took the top prize at the BBC Yorkshire Sports Personality of the Year dinner held this year in Bradford. It was a great evening at it was a real privilege to sit on the same table as James Toesland last years winner and, Kevin Blakwell Sheffield United manager. The night...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 2 months ago

“A busy few weeks”

Well it’s been quite a busy and exciting few weeks for me. Today I was part of the opening committee for the new Olympic Sailing Centre at Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy. The new site has grown somewhat over the last few months and is now completed, the first of the London 2012 sites and...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 3 months ago

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Wow!!!!!! What an amazing few weeks its been. Firstly Im sorry for not keeping you all up to date, Ive been pretty busy. Here are a couple of highlights. We all had an amazing reception on arriving home back to Heathrow where Saskias sister picked us up. While driving home it was so funny as little...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 5 months ago

“New Blog Site”

Due to the Olympic Rules I am no longer aloud to write blogs on this site. I will be putting things up on my Blogspot. www.paulgoodison.blogspot.com Thanks Paul   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 6 months ago

“Next stop Qingdao”

I write this yawning as i sit and wait for my next flight from Beijing to Quingdao. I didn't catch much sleep on the flight so im fueling myself with caffeine to try and stay awake. It all feels very real having just validated my accreditation. Walking around in my team kit everybody seems interested...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 7 months ago

“European Champion ”

After a really tough week in Belgium I came away as European Champion again, 4 in a row.... Back in January when we were planning my run in to the games I was unsure whether to compete in the Europeans. The conditions are very tidal even stronger than China which could be great practice but, if there...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 7 months ago

“A Change of Tack”

I've had a pretty good week at home training although the persistent wind has made it difficult to get out Laser sailing. I feel a bit sorry for the Moth sailors that are in weymouth who have sat in the club house as racing has been cancelled for the last three days and it doesn't look so good today...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 7 months ago

“Olympic Clothing and a new...”

Its been a busy few days. On Wednesday I made the trip up to Northampton to collect a new boat ready for the Europeans. After swapping boats over it was off to the NEC to collect my Olympic Kit. The whole process took nearly two hours as I was escorted from room to room trying each piece of kit on...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 8 months ago

“Round the Island and Back in...”

After another good week of training in China I returned home on Friday for the JPMorgan Round the Island Race. I taxied from the airport straight to Cowes for some Volvo corporate and media racing in J80's before a Volvo bbq in the evening. Fighting off the jet lag I made it through to about 10pm before...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 8 months ago

“China Camp”

Im back out in China training again. Its quite nice this trip as most of the sailing team are here staying in the same hotel. The atmosphere is great and the competition is pretty high, pool, table tennis, tennis you name it theres always a challenge going on!!! We have just had a really good week...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 8 months ago

“A Royal Send Off”

On Wednesday night we had the sail for gold ball at The Hilton Park Lane, London. Over 800 guests attended including HRH The Princess Royal for an evening of fun and fundraising hosted by Davina McCall. I had a great evening seeing many old friends and a good party afterwards. Its time now to head...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 8 months ago

“A Rude Awakening”

Its nice to be home for a few days although I had a rude awakening this morning. At six am I had a knock on the door from the drug testers so had to wander downstairs still half asleep to produce a sample before staggering back to bed, I'm still suffering a touch from jet lag. After weights this morning...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 9 months ago

“Home Time”

We had a great last day of sailing in Qingdao, one of the best Ive had there. It was a rare day where the sky's where clear, the sun was bright and the wind blew. There was all of a sudden a mountainous back drop and a row of ships on the horizon that over the past week have only been heard and not...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 9 months ago

“Lost Bouys!!!”

Its been a pretty interesting day on the water today. The visibility again was pretty poor, down to around 80m at times. We headed out to sea to do some short course racing. Chris laid a course and gps marked the buoy positions. After we rounded the windward mark we headed back down wind on a compass...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 9 months ago

“China Training”

We have been here nearly a week now and have seen a good mix of conditions from no wind to 25 knots!!! so the training has been varied. One of the biggest challengers was getting the boats out of the containers as we had no keys for the padlocks! Nick went for the brute force route trying to smash...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 9 months ago

“CHINA”

It has been a busy few days before Im finally here in China! I took delivery of my new Volvo on Monday, not only does it look nice and clean but it has some fancy new extras ive not seen before. On Tuesday i had to give blood, I don't usually enjoy this at the best of times. Nathan the nutritionalist...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 9 months ago

“Last Race on British Waters”

This weekend was the last time I will compete on British waters before the Olympics. It was quite fitting that it was in Weymouth the waters for the next Olympic sailing event post China. Saturday was very light winds and the race officer decided to hold the fleet ashore. Unfortunately the wind dropped...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 9 months ago

“Biking, Laser Q and Olympic...”

UK Qualifiers and Team Building After Hyere I flew straight home ready for an Olympic team building session in North Wales. On the way up I met with a few of the other guys to go mountain biking, we stopped at Coed y Brenin which is a wicked mountain bike centre. The team building was at Plas Menai...   more details »

Posted by Paul Goodison 9 months ago