Yachting From Barnrv Pickthsll Leng Beach "At the end of the day we were not good enough to win at this level. -We have some very good sailors but the truth is the world rai.sed thtir .." - that was the view expressed by Mike Evans, the British yachting team manager after watching Britain's chances of securing three brorize medals dwindle to one on the final day of the seven-race Olympic series held off Long Beach. The tally of one bronze won by the Flying Dutchman crew, Jo Richards and Peter Allam who had begun their series as clear favourites to win was a bitter disappointment that showed on the faces of all the team who had devoted the last three years to compete in these Games and had expected to do much better. Particularly disconsolate were the Tornado sailors Rob White and David Campbell-James who had begun the seventh race in the bronze medal spot but slipped to finish up sixth after slipping to seventh place in this last heat, weU astern of their rivals. "We just didn't have the boat speed in the light winds after the start" a glum White said afterwards. In fact, their troubles bepn when the pair were squeezed out from making a clean port tack start at the pin end of the line by the Dane Paul Elvstrom and after passing behind most of the fleet before setting away into clear air, they were never able to get back on level terms with their rivals. The one consolation to an otherwise glum day was the marvellous victory scored by Cathy Foster and Peter Newlands who led the 470 class from start to finish to chalk up Britain's sole race win in this sport, which pulled them up from 10th to seventh in the overtll. standings. Britain's Stir sailors; lain Wool- ward and John Maddocks, might have made it a double after aiso taking an early kad in their start but later they sipped back to finish fourth after relinquishing the lead to the American gold medal winner Buchan and Erickson. The Finn gold medal remained in the balance for several hours after the race while the jury weighed the wet clothing worn by New Zealand's victor, Russell Coutts. On two occasions the scales topped the 20 kg limit by almost half a kilogram until weighed individually when, to the obvious relief of the young New Zealander, the iarments somehow totalled a mere 19.08 kg. Less happy were the Norwegian Soling crew skippered by Dag Usterud who came ashore believing they had won the silver medal only to find themselves disqualified for Pumping the mainsail and spinna- ker illegaly at the end of the downwind lep. This moved the Brazilians up into second place and gave Canada's crew, skippered by Hans Fogh, an unexpected bronze. Commenting . on the American tally of three gold and four silver medals from these Games, Mike Evans said: "One cannot help but admire the United States perform- ance and we must now go home and find ways .of emulating their talent spotting system and methods of raising money. Medal, please Los Angeles (Reuter) - Hilda, Strike (Canada) lost the 100 metres at the 1932 olympics to a woman who turned out to be a man. She is still trying for a gold medal. She lost by inches to a Polish-born American, Stella Walsh. Both shared a world record time, 11,9 sec., Walsh died in 1980, caught in the crossfire during an armed robbery in Cleveland. The autopsy revealed she was a man. YACHTING Solitary bronze is little consolation to the British tea