We welcomed yesterday the best sixteen Optimist teams representing their own country, they paraded through the streets of Pieve di Ledro, preceded by the Gruppo Sbandieratori Citt\u00e0 di Feltre, by the political and sporting authorities who greeted athletes in M\u00fcllheim Square, where the European President of the Optimist Class Carmen Carso officially opened the Championship.<\/p>\n
A greeting to all athletes and the Community of Ledro on behalf of the Italian Sailing Federation was brought by President Francesco Ettorre.<\/p>\n
After the oaths on behalf of the athletes pronounced by Claudia Quaranta (athlete of the Italian Team) and Aristotelis Stamatiadis (representative of the Greek Team) and judges by Diego Yubero (Chief Umpire of the European Championship) and Filip Moczorodynski who said to act\u00a01n a correct and sporting way throughout the championship, there was a show of Gruppo Sbandieratori Citt\u00e0 di Feltre and during the evening we had a pleasure to\u00a0listen to the music of Roses Garden Trio Music.<\/p>\n
Today teams started\u00a0to fight\u00a0by completing 80 matches, that means more than half the round robin.<\/p>\n
Right now the ranking is leading by\u00a0France, followed by Sweden and Poland.<\/p>\n
The present teams (in alphabetical order): Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Norway, Holland, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey<\/p>\n
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