Paul Cayard resigns as boss of US Olympic Sailing Team

By BERNIE WILSON
AP Sports Writer

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Paul Cayard has resigned as executive director of the U.S. Olympic Sailing Team, the latest upheaval for a once-dominant squad that has become an afterthought on the world stage. Cayard said he couldn’t work under a restructuring of the Olympic team’s management. He said he was told just minutes before a board of directors meeting that he would be asked to focus on fundraising while someone else ran the team. Cayard leaves less than 1 ½ years before the Paris Olympics, with the American team mired in an unfathomable slump that started long before he took over in March 2021.