Laser sailing will commence at 13:00 local time on Monday 8 August at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games but what’s the history of the one-person dinghy, where does its roots lie? Well we’ve done all the hard ...

The journey to the Olympics is long and daunting. There are more moments of ­defeat than triumph, so it’s easy to get caught up in results or the distance from the end goal. Focusing too much on these ...