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Washington Post: Tunnicliffe Goes for Second Gold; ODU Sailing Power
July 11, 2012
Let's get what seems important out of the way, because in Anna Tunnicliffe's mind and life, it is irrelevant. "I'm American," Tunnicliffe said. "I've spent more than half of my life in America. I'm going to England to compete. Yeah, I like the country. I love the country. But no, I'm not going home." "It's a non-issue," said Mitch Brindley, Tunnicliffe's sailing coach at Old Dominion University. "She is by far the biggest American fan and athlete, probably, that the U.S. team could have," said fellow Olympic sailor Debbie Capozzi. Read the full article by Svrluga on Tunnicliffe and her ODU Sailing ties here.
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Ask Tunnicliffe where she's from, and she'll say, "Ohio." Ask where's her home now, and she'll say Florida. Ignore the underpinnings of a British accent. That she will sail for the United States next month in the Olympic Games, and that those Olympic Games will be held in London -- just three hours south of Doncaster, the English city in which Tunnicliffe was born -- is mere coincidence.