Brasília - Brazil took a strong sailing team to Athens, no doubt about that. The team of Torben Grael and Marcelo Ferreira won a second gold medal for the country in the Star Race yesterday, bringing Brazil's gold medal total to three. The feat makes Grael the country's greatest ever Olympic athlete with five medals - two of them gold.

The other Brazilian gold medals in the Athens games were in men's beach volleyball (Ricardo e Emanuel) and Robert Scheidt who won the Laser Class sailing competition.

Agência Brasil
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Translator: Allen Bennett
08/27/2004