Audi Joins Welcome Home for Australia's Olympic Sailors

HAMILTON ISLAND – August 29, 2008: Australia’s Olympic sailors have travelled to their training base of Hamilton Island after arriving home from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games for a sailing community homecoming.

The sailors arrived in Sydney with the entire Australian Olympic Team on Tuesday morning and flew to Hamilton Island on Wednesday, where Audi Hamilton Island Race Week has been in full swing.

“As Hamilton Island was the team’s principle Australian training venue in the lead-up to the Olympic Games and so many of the Australian sailing fraternity are gathered there for Race Week, it makes an ideal place to welcome the team home,” said Yachting Australia CEO Phil Jones.

“The team has had such fantastic support from the sailing community at home, so it’s fitting we share the team’s success with people who truly understand what they have achieved and the challenges they’ve faced.”

At Hamilton Island the team have had time to relax with fellow sailors and were also given a tickertape parade by the local community, island visitors and crews last night after joining the fun at the Whitehaven Beach Party that day.