FORMER ODU SAILOR IN SECOND PLACE

Former ODU All-American sailor Charlie Ogletree and teammate John Lovell are currently in second place after eight races in the Tornado Class sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens.

In Wednesday's races, the duo finished sixth and seventh which dropped them to second place, seven points behind the leads, Roman Hagara and Hans Steinacher of Austria.

Ogletree feel they are somewhat dependent on luck to navigate the random shifts and pressure zones that come with the seabreeze. "Today we didn't have any luck, but a couple of teams were buried and came out of the corners on a few shifts, including Australia, which moved up to third overall." Lovell said he plans to "just sail two really good races" on Thursday. "The way these conditions are, you can't cover another team," he surmised, thinking about the mere seven points that separate them from the Austrians in first place. "If you do, you could miss some critical shifts. We trained here for over a month and never saw this kind of breeze."