Spring training is longer than three weeks.
Football training camps last almost twice as long. Most of the sailors competing in the Soling class at the U.S. Olympic Yachting Trials have sailed together for the last four years, training for this one regatta. We're just trying to race a sailboat and not worry about specifics of the Soling. The Solings got started a day before the other seven divisions to be decided in the trials because of the split racing in the class. The top four finishers after 10 fleet races advance to the match-racing finals next week, which take an extra day.