List of Olympic venues in sailing

In 1920, the twelve-foot dinghy event set for Ostend was moved to the Netherlands at special request of the Belgian Olympic Committee.

[3] During the fifth race of the 1988 Summer Olympic sailing Finn event near Busan, Canada's Lawrence Lemieux was in second place when he noticed Joseph Chan of Singapore in the water 25 yd (23 m) from his capsized boat.

[8] It was so bad that Barcelona port authorities, under pressure from the International Yacht Racing Union (later International Sailing Federation, now World Sailing since 2015), assigned four garbage vessels to collect garbage daily.

[8] In the men's windsurfer event, American Mike Gebhardt got a plastic bag caught on his boardsail in the last lap of the seventh race.

[8] Gebhardt lost out a gold by 0.4 points over France's Franck David.

Le Havre co-hosted the sailing events for both the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris.
For the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, one part of Kiel Bay hosted the sailing events. Thirty-six years later, another part of Kiel Bay hosted the Olympic sailing events though the Games were in Munich.
For the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the Olympic Sailing Shore Base in Rushcutters Bay hosted the sailing events.