Pirita Beach
Sandy shoreline where crowds sunbathe, swim, and play beach volleyball beside a former Olympic sailing venue.
This guide to Pirita Beach in Tallinn opens with a seventeen-year-old sailing student, Vaiko Vooremaa, about to light the Olympic flame here on 20 July 1980 for the Moscow Games' sailing regatta. You'll hear why that honor was anything but simple, with sixty-five countries boycotting the Games over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Estonia's government in exile objecting to holding them on occupied territory. The guide follows the regatta itself, six boat classes racing beyond the bay, and the coastal road, bridge and sailing centre it left behind. Walk the promenade today and see how little of that tension shows on the sand.
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