Rebooting the Machine

Out of all of Paul Cayard’s proposals for reinventing Team USA, building a highperformance track in college sailing is the one most likely to provoke a lively conversation.

KIMBALL LIVINGSTON

When Team USA left Tokyo empty-handed, we were reminded that Olympic sailing is one corner of our sport that can generate as much controversy—OK, almost as much—as America’s Cup. But Team USA is changing. Oh, you’ve heard that one before? Let’s give it a think. Paul Cayard is the latest hopeful to step up as executive director of US Olympic Sailing and talk transformation. He’s taking on a firing-line job with guaranteed slings and arrows, and few guaranteed rewards, and it’s a job that won’t pay what he could be pulling in elsewhere. But once upon a time, Cayard was the kid who took a business degree to prepare himself as a professional sailor. And he studied languages because the work is international. And when he became a top dog…

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Sailing World (Digital) - 1 Issue, Winter 2022

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