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MARSEILLE, France — The mixed-gender boats – both dinghies and a multihulls – took to the Mediterranean on Friday and Saturday in Marseille for the 2024 Olympics, just as the first medal races in skiffs and windsurfing were held. The first one-man, one-woman crew in the Olympics sailed in Rio on the Nacra 17, a foiling catamaran that flies off the water at high speed. For these Games, the 470, a much slower, more traditional-looking boat, was added as mixed for the first time to balance the medal possibilities for men and women.
