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7:47 PM Mon 1 Dec 2008 GMT
 | | 'Justina Sellers (NZL) between USA and GBR, on the front row of the grid at the start of the Girls RS:X on Day 2, in the Volvo Youth Worlds.'
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A New Zealand windsurfer, Justina Sellers, has been caught in the Thai airport standoff with the RS:X Youth Worlds in Pattaya, Thailand, likely to be abandoned.
Sail-World has been told that most of the competitors have not arrived at the event due to start on 6 December, and organizers have asked for a week delay. However it is expected that the event will be cancelled.
A New Zealand competitor, Justina Sellers, a former NZ representative at the ISAF Youth Worlds is in Payatta waiting for the regatta to start. She has no baggage, which has been sent back to Auckland because of the airline chaos in Thailand.
Sellers is daughter of Olympic Gold and Silver medalist, Rex Sellers, and is on the comeback after a serious shoulder injury sustained in the 2007 ISAF Youth Worlds in Weymouth, England.
Current estimates are that there are in excess of 150,000 tourists stuck in Thailand, with authorites reluctant to make any positive moves to alleviate the problem.
The RS:X class website reports'
'Yes, we tried everything we could think of to make this thing happen. Too many people have trained too hard for this championship for the class to give up on the event without a fight.
'The trouble is the more we worked the more we found that things were getting more and more complicated. A vicious circle, if you like. One that we could not in all conscience find a reasonable way out of. So that's it, the 2008 RS:X Youth Worlds are postponed.
'We'll come back to you with news about where and when this event will take place as soon as we all have got some sleep and reflected on the best thing to do.'
by Richard Gladwell
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