Selection trials to determine the young sailor who will represent Bermuda at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games start today.

The trials will be sailed over four race days in the Great Sound over the next couple of weeks and has been organized by the Byte Class of Bermuda.

Rahiem Steede clinched Bermuda's Olympic berth with his fifth place finish at the Byte North American Championships in Grand Cayman last March. The other sailors who will be battling it out this weekend include current HWP National Champion, Owen Siese, Dimitri Stevens, Kalin Hillier, Alex Davis and Mackenzie Cooper.