Ben Ainslie: 'I can only win one medal per Games – I've done all I can do'

Published November 30, 2008, 6:02 pm, Independent

When Ben Ainslie was 15 he won a junior world championship sailing a Laser Radial, a class of dinghy. Someone at the BBC, noting this splendid achievement, decided that it would be nice to invite him to the Sports Personality of the Year awards. He and his father duly turned up outside the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in London in a taxi. Ainslie grins as he recounts the story. "We got ...

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