2024 Olympics: What to know — and who to watch — during the sailing competitions in Paris

A roadmap to follow for the sailing competitions during the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris.

Athletes to watch

Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze, Brazil: They won gold medals at the last two Olympics in the women’s skiff known as 49erFX.

Stu McNay, United States: The 42-year-old McNay has competed in the past four Olympics and will race in Marseille in the mixed dinghy known as 470 together with Lara Dallman-Weiss. They’ll face stiff competition from Spain’s Jordi Xammar and Nora Brugman, who used to compete for the U.S.

Daniela Moroz, United States: The San Francisco native has won six world championships in kitesurfing.

Luuc van Opzeeland, Netherlands: The 25-year-old Dutchman is the reigning world champion in men’s windsurfing-iQFOiL.

Storylines to follow

Kitesurfing is a new sport at these Games for men and women — and the athletes will compete at some the fastest speeds of any Olympic sports in the open sea. Windsurfing-iQFOiL is also new. The other events are men’s and women’s dinghy, kite, skiff plus two mixed races — dinghy and multihull.