World Sailing's Board has confirmed a plan to allow Russians and Belarusians to return to competition in April next year.

World Sailing has revealed that it will make a decision on the readmission of Russian and Belarusian athletes as neutrals following its Council meeting scheduled to be held on May 18.

German boatbuilder Greenboats has received World Sailing's 11^th Hour Racing Sustainability Award for its "pioneering" design of racing yachts.

World Sailing has pledged its commitment to continue supporting a return to the Paralympic Games after failing to secure the sport’s place at Los Angeles 2028. 

The 2023 Youth Sailing World Championships will be held at the coastal resort town of Armação dos Búzios, Brazil, and the 2024 edition is being planned for Lake Garda, Italy, World Sailing has announced.

The Olympic Flag has been lowered to half mast at Olympic House in Lausanne as a tribute to King Constantine of Greece, sailing gold medallist at the 1960 Olympics in Rome and Honorary member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who has died in Athens aged 82.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Ng Ser Miang has dismissed a legal finding that he interfered in the World Sailing election in 2020.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Ng Ser Miang has been found guilty of failing to act with integrity and of interfering in a bitter World Sailing election in 2020 which saw Denmark's Kim Andersen narrowly defeated by China’s Quanhai Li.

The Notice of Race has been published for next year's Sailing World Championships in The Hague, a competition which has qualification on the line for the 2024 Olympic Games.

A live audience will watch 10 sailors compete in the finals of the 2022 eSailing World Championships in Alicante next month as they compete for prize pool of $10,000 (£8,000/€9,500).

World Sailing chief executive David Graham has hailed efforts by the global sailing community to reinstate sailing for the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games and promised that the campaign will be continued even if current efforts prove unsuccessful.

World Sailing has confirmed competition dates for four major Olympic-class regattas over the next two years in a move it claims will benefits sailors, national bodies and event organisers on all continents.

World Sailing has entered into partnerships with the Global Wingsports Association (GWA) and International Wing Sports Association (IWSA) in a bid to accelerate wingfoil development.

World Sailing has called on the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) to include the sport on the programme of the 2025 Caribbean Games.

Governance reforms have been approved at the World Sailing Annual General Meeting (AGM) which President Quanhai Li has claimed will "modernise the sport's decision-making".