A trio of world and Olympic champion

British Golden Globe Race sailor

Susie Goodall was plucked from a stormy Southern Ocean by a Chinese ship on December 7, a day after her yacht was dismasted, rescuers told AFP. Goodall “was rescued at 1500 GMT and is already on the ship heading to Punta Arenas,” in southern Chile, the country’s Maritime Rescue Services said. A photo tweeted by rescuers showed Goodall, her head wrapped in a bandana, being winched above the waves and aboard the Hong Kongflagged vessel Tian Fu. “Susie is on the ship !!!! Wowowow! Message just received from Susie Goodall,” the Golden Globe Race organisers announced on their website. “This is fantastic news indeed... well done Susie too,” they said. The youngest competitor in the race and the only woman, 29yearold Goodall was briefly knocked unconscious when mountainous seas upended her yacht DHL Starlight early on December 6, tearing off its mast and trashing much of her equipment. Goodall had managed to get her engine running but it failed after just 20 minutes, complicating rescue efforts as Chilean authorities diverted the Tian Fu to the area. swimmers has sued swimming’s world governing body FINA in a US court in San Francisco over its crackdown on NONFINA approved events. Hungarian Katinka Hosszu and Americans Tom Shields and Michael Andrews filed the classaction antitrust lawsuit on Friday after Swissbased FINA effectively shut down an independent meeting in Italy, threatening to ban elite swimmers who took part from Olympic competition. The meeting, scheduled for late December in Turin, Italy, was coordinated by organisers of a proposed International Swimming League that would operate outside FINA’S control and pay higher prize money. Shields, an Olympic gold medallist, said he joined the lawsuit because he had dreamed for years of seeing swimming expand to include a professional league. “We are closer now than ever before to making that dream come true,” Shields said. “But that dream is being blocked by FINA.” Attorneys for the plaintiffs say the swimmers “believe a professional league that will compensate its best athletes and better reward them for a lifetime's worth of hard training and sacrifice is long overdue.” The lawyers said that the International Swimming League had filed a separate lawsuit against FINA for its alleged “anticompetitive conduct.”