Friends for more than 15 years, Charlie Ogletree and John Lovell have been to three Olympic regattas in the Tornado, bringing home the silver medal from Athens. With the Tornado voted off the roster for 2012, this will likely be the pair's last Olympic regatta. Ogletree, who crews the catamaran, spoke with NBCOlympics about his sailing career, the Tornado and what the pair expects from Qingdao:

How does your friendship influence your abilities as a team? Do you think you have an advantage because of it?

It's a big advantage. We've seen everything. We've screwed up everything you can screw up. We used to get mad and yell at each other. But now we're calmer and we know how to deal with adversity. It's like in golf you have 18 holes and if Tiger screws up one hole he knows how to move on. In sailing you have ten or 11 races. If you sail one bad race you can forget about it and move on.

Read the entire interview on the NBC Beijing Olympics website.