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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Catamarans are back in Olympic sailing, with the kind of adrenaline rush that only a double-hulled boat can bring to the regatta.The Nacra 17 catamarans made a wild Olympic debut on a rainy Wednesday. There was a capsize and a breakdown in the first race. Boats flew hulls in the breeze coming off Sugarloaf Mountain, and crews hoisted spinnakers adorned with country flags that made them easily identifiable for spectators watching from Flamengo Beach.Catamarans are back with a vengeance, said Louisa Chafee of Warwick, Rhode Island, who serves as crew for U.S. skipper Bora Gulari of Miami.Catamarans disappeared from the Olympics when the Tornado class was dropped before the 2012 London Games. The Nacra 17 class was introduced specifically for Rio. Its the first time men and women have sailed together in the games.Theyre the fastest and most exciting to watch, Gulari said. Without a doubt. Nobody else flies out of the water like we do. Catamarans have to be in the Olympics.The American crew was 11th after two races. Switzerlands Matias Buhler and Nathalie Brugger won the opening race and were seventh in the second race in tough conditions to take the overall lead. The third race was postponed due to shifting wind.The heavily favored French crew of Billy Besson and Marie Riou of France were 17th after finishes of seventh and 19th.In the first race, the Greek boat capsized on polluted Guanabara Bay. Brazilian fans cheered as their countrys boat closed the gap behind Argentina, then fell silent as something broke, bringing the home countrys catamaran to a halt.The conditions were pretty tricky, shifting all over the place, Chafee said. Everyone was all over the place. Youre up, youre down. Its just the nature of Rio.The race committee did the best it could, Gulari said.This was just a really tough direction on this course for the race committee. Normally its a great place to sail and a great course.While the cats had their share of mayhem, order was restored in the heavyweight mens dinghy, the Finn.Britains Giles Scott took a second and first to jump into first place. Favored to win the gold medal, Scott was 10th after the first two races on Tuesday.The two Finn races were sailed on an ocean course in huge seas and in the kind of wind that, as the Australians say, blows dogs off chains.It was incredibly windy, the top end of what wed race in, 20-25 knots, big seas, Scott said. It made for really full-on racing. To come away with a second and a first, yes, its a lot more pleasing.Scott had finishes of 17th and third on Tuesday on the course near Sugarloaf, where the catamarans sailed Wednesday.It couldnt have been more different, Scott said. We went from racing underneath a mountain in very light and fickle winds, to being out to sea in strong breezes and a big seaway. It was a big change in racing and approach, and fortunately it came good for me today.He knows he has to handle both the pressure of following countryman Ben Ainslie, the most successful Olympic sailor of all time, and the varying conditions Rio offers.Britain has dominated the Finn since Iain Percy won the gold in 2000. Ainslie won the gold in Athens, Beijing and London to finish his Olympic career with four straight golds, as well as a silver. Now comes Scott, making his Olympic debut at age 29.American Caleb Paine of San Diego, making his Olympic debut, is seventh after going 21-3.In the mens Laser class, Brazils Robert Scheidt had a good day with finishes of 11-2 to jump into fourth place. Hes trying to become the first sailor and first Brazilian to win six Olympic medals.In the womens Laser Radial, Irelands Annalise Murphy had finishes of fifth and second to jump into the lead. She dominated the early portion of the London Olympics regatta before failing to medal. 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Worcester have announced that rugby director Dean Ryan has left the Aviva Premiership club.The Warriors said that Ryan has been released from his contract and will leave his post immediately.Ryans exit comes barely two months before the new Premiership season starts.Worcester said that their senior management team will consist of head coach Carl Hogg and high performance director Nick Johnston, who will both report to club chief executive Jim OToole.Hogg will retain responsibility for the first-team squad, with Johnston continuing his work with the academy, medical, sports science and player welfare departments at Sixways.Worcester, with Ryan at the helm, have made a number of new signings in readiness for next term, including England squad centre Ben Teo from Leinster.Recent media speculation suggested that 50-year-old Ryan had been unhappy with finances made available in terms of Warriors playing budget.Ryan joined Worcester in May 2013, and although the Warriors were relegated a year later, they regained Premiership status at the first attempt and retained a top-flight position last term.The former England number eight, meanwhile, has been strongly linked to the top job at Bath, which has been vacant since Mike Fords departure from tthe Recreation Ground.ddddddddddddOToole said: We are very sorry to see Dean move on from Sixways.He has been instrumental in developing and putting in place our long-term plan, and we have been delighted with our progress and the momentum we have built up over the last three years.Dean has also helped to build a team around him who are ready to step up to the next level and build on that progress.For the first time in Warriors history we have an active succession plan which has already kicked-in.We are an ambitious club with sights on the top six places in the Premiership and the Champions Cup.In a statement announcing Ryans exit, the club added: The Warriors board has committed to a 25 percent increase in the rugby budget for the 2016-17 season.And it is following a long-term strategy based on the development of a solid base of English-qualified players via an annual ￡500,000 investment in the academy, a ￡500,000 academy house, a ￡3.5million investment in top-class facilities and infrastructure and the commitment to spending to the Premiership salary cap to make the current squad as competitive as possible. 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