Monday, August 25, 2008

Australia's secret weather weapon helps win gold medals

BORIS has never been to an Olympics before. Never hoisted a sail, never even set foot aboard a boat. Until now, in fact, Boris has been kept well and truly under cover.

But the '18th member' of Australia's gold-medal winning sailing team has been unmasked as the secret behind their success.

Commissioned two and half years ago by the CSIRO, the sophisticated weather program _ nicknamed Boris by the Australian sailing team for no particular reason - propelled Australia's most successful sailing team to their best Games since Sydney 2000.
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