“I made a few mistakes, I had a crash when I was pushing hard to try to win one race. I was side by side with Riccardo in another race and made a small mistake in the gybe when I let the tip of my kite touch the water. These are the things I still have to work on, but I feel I am going in the right direction.”


GOOD RECOVERY BY PÉGOURIÉ

Compared with the runaway winners in the boys’ fleet, things weren’t quite so cut and dried in the girls’ fleet. In the first heat, two top French riders were neck and neck with less than 100 metres to the finish. But a tangle of kites brought Héloïse Pégourié and Lysa Caval crashing to the water. Pégourié limped across the line in 14th while Caval didn’t manage to finish. Another rider from the strong French squad, Chloé Revil, went on to win the opening heat.

However, for the next three races Pégourié avoided the tangles and broke clear to take three back-to-back victories. This puts the French rider in the lead, four points ahead of youth world champion Julia Damasiewicz from Poland.