Sporting Digest: Sailing

A tough approach was promised yesterday by Jim Saltonstall, who has been appointed Britain's Olympic team coach to take the squad through the 1996 Games regatta in Savannah and beyond. Rod Carr becomes Olympic team manager.

Two England teams, one from the south and the other from the east, will contest the Rolex Commodores' Cup next year, in which three-boat teams of amateurs compete. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will also have two teams each.