London 2012: Pippa Wilsons absence raises doubts over participation

By Kate Laven Published: 5:27PM GMT 02 March 2010

Golden girls: Pippa Wilson is flanked by Sarah Webb (left) and Sarah Ayton at the 2008 Beijing Games Photo: GETTY IMAGES

The Yngling-class bullion medallist who, with Sarah Ayton and Sarah Webb shaped the "three blondes in a boat" organisation at the Beijing Games in 2008, is deliberate a tip award awaiting for London 2012, but new events have left group organisers wondering either she will front up for training.

The doubts proposed when Wilson finished a remarkable exit from Skandia Team GBR only hours prior to the Rolex Miami OC Regatta in January.

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Reports referred to she had returned home to understanding with a personal crisis, call the Royal Yachting Association to call up Ayton, who, similar to Wilson, switched to 470-class racing after the Yngling category was scrapped, to partner Saskia Clarke.

But given afterwards Wilson, 24, has forsaken out of the team"s precision camps to transport in South America, withdrawal selectors capricious and endangered over her intentions during the subordinate period.

By open 2012, they contingency have picked Britain"s 3 470 crews and committed appropriation for their conflict for the one British mark for the London Olympic Games in Weymouth starting in Jul 2012.

"We would goal to see Pippa behind but have no joining from her," pronounced Stephen Park, the RYA Olympic manager. "She feels she wants to do something a bit different.

"Since she was a nipper, all she has finished is sail. She was in the girl squad, afterwards went in to the girl worlds patrol and the growth programme, afterwards went on to the Olympics, so she is receiving a mangle to get a little viewpoint on life, that I think is healthy."

Despite Britain"s Olympic sailing success over the past decade, there has been a miss of medals in the 470 women"s class, and Park is still perplexing to conjure up up a award prospect.

Ayton and Clarke will contest together for the moment.

Another hopeful, Penny Clark, who is injured, is set to go on with Katrina Hughes but selectors confess to doubt over the future.

"All these people are deliberating opposite things and perplexing opposite options but we don"t know how things will see in dual years" time," Park said. "It is of a little regard but the programme is about enabling bullion medallists... and we have to have certain that any investment is a inestimable one.

"We are perplexing to get the partnerships right, removing the right change of skills and celebrity in to the right boats at the right time.

"There is no vigour on Pippa but at a little theatre we have to confirm who has medal-winning intensity and who we support."