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Official Schedule
Brasília Time (GMT -3)
Olympic Event Final | Non-Olympic Event Final


Monday, August 8th
13:05 Men's Laser Day 1
13:05 Men's RS:X Day 1
13:15 Women's Laser Radial Day 1
13:15 Women's RS:X Day 1


Tuesday, August 9th
13:05 Men's Finn Day 1
13:05 Women's Laser Radial Day 2
13:15 Men's Laser Day 2
13:20 Women's RS:X Day 2
13:30 Men's RS:X Day 2


Wednesday, August 10th
13:05 Men's 470 Day 1
13:05 Men's Finn Day 2
13:05 Men's Laser Day 3
13:05 Mixed Nacra 17 Day 1
13:15 Women's 470 Day 1
13:15 Women's Laser Radial Day 3


Thursday, August 11th
13:05 Men's Finn Day 3
13:05 Men's RS:X Day 3
13:05 Mixed Nacra 17 Day 2
13:05 Women's 470 Day 2
13:15 Men's 470 Day 2
13:15 Women's RS:X Day 3


Friday, August 12th
13:05 Men's 470 Day 3
13:05 Men's 49er Day 1
13:05 Women's 49er FX Day 1
13:05 Women's Laser Radial Day 4
13:05 Women's RS:X Day 4
13:15 Men's Laser Day 4
13:15 Men's RS:X Day 4
13:15 Women's 470 Day 3


Saturday, August 13th
13:05 Men's 49er Day 2
13:05 Men's Finn Day 4
13:05 Men's Laser Day 5
13:05 Mixed Nacra 17 Day 3
13:05 Women's Laser Radial Day 5
13:20 Women's 49er FX Day 2


Sunday, August 14th
13:05 Men's Finn Day 5
13:05 Men's RS:X Medal Race
13:05 Mixed Nacra 17 Day 4
13:05 Women's 470 Day 4
13:15 Men's 470 Day 4
14:05 Women's RS:X Medal Race


Monday, August 15th
13:05 Men's 49er Day 3
13:05 Women's 49er FX Day 3


Tuesday, August 16th
13:05 Men's 470 Day 5
13:05 Men's 49er Day 4
13:05 Women's 49er FX Day 4
13:05 Women's Laser Radial Medal Race
13:15 Women's 470 Day 5
13:50 Men's Laser Medal Race
14:35 Men's Finn Medal Race
15:20 Mixed Nacra 17 Medal Race


Thursday, August 18th
13:05 Women's 470 Medal Race
13:50 Men's 470 Medal Race
14:35 Men's 49er Medal Race
15:20 Women's 49er FX Medal Race

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Men's RS:X
Final Results

 

NED.gif VAN RIJSSELBERGHE Dorian
25.0MR

 

GBR.gif DEMPSEY Nick
52.0MR

 

FRA.gif LE COQ Pierre
86.0MR

 

Rank
Athletes
Nation
Result
4
MYSZKA Piotr
POL.gif
88.0MR
5
KOKKALANIS Vyron
GRE.gif
96.0MR
6
WILHELM Toni
GER.gif
100.0MR
7
SANTOS Ricardo
BRA.gif
118.0MR
8
CHENG Chun Leung Michael
HKG.gif
126.0MR
9
PASTOR LAFUENTE Ivan
ESP.gif
127.0MR
10
CAMBONI Mattia
ITA.gif
137.0MR
11
RODRIGUES Joao
POR.gif
125.0
12
FLEISCHER Sebastian
DEN.gif
135.0
13
WANG Aichen
CHN.gif
135.0
14
SANZ LANZ Mateo
SUI.gif
136.0
15
TOMIZAWA Makoto
JPN.gif
138.0
16
OBEREMKO Maksim
RUS.gif
139.0
17
ZUBARI Shahar
ISR.gif
160.0
18
LEE Taehoon
KOR.gif
165.0
19
CARIOLOU Andreas Pheobus
CYP.gif
181.0
20
MIER Y TERAN CUEVAS David Mauri.
MEX.gif
207.0
21
SAUBIDET BIRKNER Bautista
ARG.gif
210.0
22
TSIRKUN Mikita
BLR.gif
215.0
23
TUGARYEV Oleksandr
UKR.gif
225.0
24
MRATOVIC Luka
CRO.gif
245.0
25
GADORFALVI Aron
HUN.gif
277.0
26
BERNOTAS Juozas
LTU.gif
278.0
27
FLORES Daniel
VEN.gif
281.0
28
PASCUAL Pedro
USA.gif
286.0
29
PHONOPPHARAT Natthaphong
THA.gif
287.0
30
GRILLO DIEZ Santiago Enrique
COL.gif
299.0
31
LAVICKY Karel
CZE.gif
324.0
32
CHANG Hao
TPE.gif
346.0
33
GARDETTE Jean-Marc
SEY.gif
355.0
34
ONG Leonard
SGP.gif
362.0
35
BIRIZ Onur
TUR.gif
363.0
36
BOURAS Hamza
ALG.gif
367.0
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Women's RS:X
Final Results

 

FRA.gif PICON Charline
64.0MR

 

CHN.gif CHEN Peina
66.0MR

 

RUS.gif ELFUTINA Stefaniya
69.0MR

 

Rank
Athletes
Nation
Result
4
DE GEUS Lilian
NED.gif
70.0MR
5
ALABAU NEIRA Marina
ESP.gif
71.0MR
6
TARTAGLINI Flavia
ITA.gif
71.0MR
7
DAVIDOVICH Maayan
ISR.gif
78.0MR
8
FREITAS Patricia
BRA.gif
80.0MR
9
SHAW Bryony
GBR.gif
83.0MR
10
PETAJA-SIREN Tuuli
FIN.gif
99.0MR
11
PUUSTA Ingrid
EST.gif
132.0
12
MOLLESTAD Maria
NOR.gif
141.0
13
VEGA DE LILLE Demita
MEX.gif
147.0
14
BIALECKA Malgorzata
POL.gif
153.0
15
BUHL-HANSEN Laerke
DEN.gif
154.0
16
LEPERT Marion
USA.gif
156.9
17
LO Sin Lam Sonia
HKG.gif
157.0
18
KAEWDUANG-NGAM Siripon
THA.gif
166.0
19
SKARLATOU Gelly
GRE.gif
171.0
20
ISEDA Megumi
JPN.gif
198.0
21
TEJERINA MACKERN Maria
ARG.gif
206.0
22
URALP Dilara
TUR.gif
230.0
23
CHOLNOKY Sara
HUN.gif
235.0
24
BIRZULE Ketija
LAT.gif
256.0
25
YONG Audrey
SGP.gif
266.0
26
BELABBAS Katia
ALG.gif
290.0
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Women's Laser Radial
Final Results

 

NED.gif BOUWMEESTER Marit
61.0MR

 

IRL.gif MURPHY Annalise
67.0MR

 

DEN.gif RINDOM Anne-Marie
71.0MR

 

Rank
Athletes
Nation
Result
4
VAN ACKER Evi
BEL.gif
78.0MR
5
TENKANEN Tuula
FIN.gif
86.6MR
6
OLSSON Josefin
SWE.gif
90.0MR
7
SCHEIDT Gintare
LTU.gif
90.0MR
8
YOUNG Alison
GBR.gif
93.0MR
9
STODDART Ashley
AUS.gif
107.0MR
10
RAILEY Paige
USA.gif
131.0MR
11
FALASCA Lucia
ARG.gif
113.0
12
KOZELSKA FENCLOVA Veronika
CZE.gif
113.0
13
MIHELIC Tina
CRO.gif
124.0
14
ERDI Maria
HUN.gif
125.0
15
DONERTAS Nazli
TUR.gif
127.0
16
BOWSKILL Brenda
CAN.gif
127.0
17
CEBRIAN MARTINEZ DE LAGOS Alic.
ESP.gif
130.0
18
XU Lijia
CHN.gif
135.0
19
DROZDOVSKAYA Tatiana
BLR.gif
137.0
20
DOI Manami
JPN.gif
139.0
21
DE KERANGAT Mathilde
FRA.gif
146.0
22
ZENNARO Silvia
ITA.gif
159.0
23
BUE Tiril
NOR.gif
163.0
24
DECNOP Fernanda
BRA.gif
163.0
25
MOREIRA FRASCHINI Dolores
URU.gif
185.0
26
YIN Elizabeth
SGP.gif
193.0
27
CARMO Sara
POR.gif
201.0
28
VAN AANHOLT Philipine
ARU.gif
206.0
29
LOVELL Stephanie
LCA.gif
226.0
30
GMATI Ines
TUN.gif
235.0
31
SCHMIDT GUTIERREZ Paloma
PER.gif
248.0
32
CHANYIM Kamolwan
THA.gif
268.0
33
MOHAMAD LATIF Nur Shazrin
MAS.gif
274.0
34
WOLLMANN Cecilia
BER.gif
291.0
35
MCKENZIE Teau
COK.gif
303.0
36
ALLAN Florence
CAY.gif
308.0
37
CHERIF SAHRAOUI Imene Ouneyssa
ALG.gif
324.0
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Men's Laser
Final Results

 

AUS.gif BURTON Tom
73.0MR

 

CRO.gif STIPANOVIC Tonci
75.0MR

 

NZL.gif MEECH Sam
85.0MR

 

Rank
Athletes
Nation
Result
4
SCHEIDT Robert
BRA.gif
89.0MR
5
BERNAZ Jean Baptiste
FRA.gif
90.0MR
6
THOMPSON Nick
GBR.gif
103.0MR
7
KONTIDES Pavlos
CYP.gif
104.0MR
8
MAEGLI Juan Ignacio
GUA.gif
117.0MR
9
VAN SCHAARDENBURG Rutger
NED.gif
118.0MR
10
ALSOGARAY Julio
ARG.gif
129.0MR
11
BUCKINGHAM Charlie
USA.gif
108.0
12
MARRAI Francesco
ITA.gif
109.0
13
HA Jeemin
KOR.gif
109.0
14
BUHL Philipp
GER.gif
126.0
15
KOMISSAROV Sergei
RUS.gif
129.0
16
STALHEIM Jesper
SWE.gif
137.0
17
VAN LAER Wannes
BEL.gif
140.0
18
ZIEMINSKI Kacper
POL.gif
140.0
19
THOMPSON Cy
ISV.gif
152.0
20
CHENG Colin
SGP.gif
160.0
21
RAMMO Karl-Martin
EST.gif
169.0
22
LIMA Gustavo
POR.gif
170.0
23
PARKHILL Lee
CAN.gif
172.0
24
ARATHOON PACAS Enrique Jose
ESA.gif
177.0
25
HANSEN Michael
DEN.gif
180.0
26
TAPPER Kaarle
FIN.gif
187.0
27
RUTH Kristian
NOR.gif
209.0
28
TEPLY Viktor
CZE.gif
222.0
29
DUKIC Milivoj
MNE.gif
232.0
30
DEL SOLAR Matias
CHI.gif
238.0
31
PESCHIERA Stefano
PER.gif
242.0
32
LYNCH Finn
IRL.gif
243.0
33
VADNAI Benjamin
HUN.gif
248.0
34
AKROUT Youssef
TUN.gif
257.0
35
MOHD AFENDY Khairulnizam
MAS.gif
281.0
36
BLANCO ALBALAT Joaquin
ESP.gif
286.0
37
BUALONG Keerati
THA.gif
287.0
38
GUTIERREZ Jose
VEN.gif
314.0
39
LEWIS Andrew
TTO.gif
324.0
40
MARCIA Stefano Raffaele
RSA.gif
331.0
41
PIMENTEL Cameron
BER.gif
339.0
42
GENTRY TORFER Yanic
MEX.gif
340.0
43
RAGAB Ahmed
EGY.gif
349.0
44
ELISA HENRY Peter
COK.gif
362.0
45
GOVINDEN Rodney
SEY.gif
365.0
46
LELO Manuel
ANG.gif
390.0
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Men's Finn
Final Results

 

GBR.gif SCOTT Giles
36.0MR

 

SLO.gif ZBOGAR Vasilij
68.0MR

 

USA.gif PAINE Caleb
76.0MR

 

Rank
Athletes
Nation
Result
4
ZARIF Jorge
BRA.gif
87.0MR
5
KLJAKOVIC GASPIC Ivan
CRO.gif
89.0MR
6
SALMINEN Max
SWE.gif
90.0MR
7
JUNIOR Josh
NZL.gif
92.0MR
8
LILLEY Jake
AUS.gif
97.0MR
9
OLEZZA BAZAN Facundo
ARG.gif
101.0MR
10
POSTMA Pieter-Jan
NED.gif
105.0MR
11
MITAKIS Ioannis
GRE.gif
88.0
12
BERECZ Zsombor
HUN.gif
92.0
13
KAYNAR Alican
TUR.gif
93.0
14
LOBERT Jonathan
FRA.gif
95.0
15
NIRKKO Tapio
FIN.gif
107.0
16
HOGH-CHRISTENSEN Jonas
DEN.gif
109.0
17
PEDERSEN Anders
NOR.gif
109.0
18
POGGI Giorgio
ITA.gif
111.0
19
FOGLIA COSTA Alejandro
URU.gif
122.0
20
KARPAK Deniss
EST.gif
126.0
21
RAMSHAW Tom
CAN.gif
151.0
22
GONG Lei
CHN.gif
178.0
23
JULIE Allan
SEY.gif
186.0
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Mixed Nacra 17
Final Results

 

ARG.gif Argentina
LANGE Santiago
CARRANZA SAROLI Cecilia

77.0MR

 

AUS.gif Australia
WATERHOUSE Jason
DARMANIN Lisa

78.0MR

 

AUT.gif Austria
ZAJAC Thomas
FRANK Tanja

78.0MR

 

Rank
Athletes
Nation
Result
4
JONES Gemma
SAUNDERS Jason
NZL.gif
81.0MR
5
BISSARO Vittorio
SICOURI Silvia
ITA.gif
84.0MR
6
BESSON Billy
RIOU Marie
FRA.gif
93.0MR
7
BUHLER Matias
BRUGGER Nathalie
SUI.gif
100.0MR
8
GULARI Bora
CHAFEE Louisa
USA.gif
106.0MR
9
SAXTON Ben
GROVES Nicola
GBR.gif
109.0MR
10
ALBRECHT Samuel
SWAN Isabel
BRA.gif
117.0MR
11
ECHAVARRI ERASUN Fernando
PACHECO VAN RIJNSOEVER Tara
ESP.gif
101.0
12
NORREGAARD Allan
VIBORG Anette
DEN.gif
108.0
13
KOHLHOFF Paul
WERNER Carolina
GER.gif
112.0
14
MULDER Mandy
DE KONING Coen
NED.gif
112.0
15
RAMSAY Luke
GIRKE Nikola
CAN.gif
133.0
16
VAN DER VELDEN Nicole
VISSER Thijs
ARU.gif
135.0
17
DEFAZIO ABELLA Pablo
FOGLIA COSTA Mariana
URU.gif
142.0
18
BEKATOROU Sofia
PATENIOTIS Michail
GRE.gif
148.0
19
LIU Justin
LIM Denise
SGP.gif
157.0
20
GHARBI Hedi
HAMMAMI Riheb
TUN.gif
211.0
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Women's 470
Final Results

 

GBR.gif Great Britain
MILLS Hannah
CLARK Saskia

44.0MR

 

NZL.gif New Zealand
ALEH Jo
POWRIE Polly

54.0MR

 

FRA.gif France
LECOINTRE Camille
DEFRANCE Helene

62.0MR

 

Rank
Athletes
Nation
Result
4
ZEGERS Afrodite
VAN VEEN Anneloes
NED.gif
63.0MR
5
KONDO YOSHIDA Ai
YOSHIOKA Miho
JPN.gif
66.0MR
6
MRAK Tina
MACAROL Veronika
SLO.gif
67.0MR
7
HAEGER Annie
PROVANCHA Briana
USA.gif
69.0MR
8
OLIVEIRA Fernanda
BARBACHAN Ana Luiza
BRA.gif
76.0MR
9
VADLAU Lara
OGAR Jolanta
AUT.gif
92.0MR
10
SKRZYPULEC Agnieszka
MROZEK-GLISZCZYNSKA Irmina
POL.gif
106.0MR
11
HORWITZ Nadja
MIDDLETON Sofia
CHI.gif
97.0
12
CORNUDELLA RAVETLLAT Barbara
LOPEZ RAVETLLAT Sara
ESP.gif
101.0
13
KIRILIUK Alisa
DMITRIEVA Liudmila
RUS.gif
104.0
14
FAHRNI Linda
SIEGENTHALER Maja
SUI.gif
104.0
15
SMITH Carrie
RYAN Jaime
AUS.gif
106.0
16
HUANG Lizhu
WANG Xiaoli
CHN.gif
113.0
17
COHEN Gil
AMIR Nina
ISR.gif
120.0
18
BOCHMANN Annika
STEINHERR Marlene
GER.gif
121.0
19
BERTA Elena
SINNO Alice
ITA.gif
135.0
20
CHOO Jovina
NG Amanda
SGP.gif
166.0
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Men's 470
Final Results

 

CRO.gif Croatia
FANTELA Sime
MARENIC Igor

43.0MR

 

AUS.gif Australia
BELCHER Mathew
RYAN Will

58.0MR

 

GRE.gif Greece
MANTIS Panagiotis
KAGIALIS Pavlos

58.0MR

 

Rank
Athletes
Nation
Result
4
MCNAY Stuart
HUGHES Dave
USA.gif
71.0MR
5
PATIENCE Luke
GRUBE Chris
GBR.gif
75.0MR
6
DAHLBERG Anton
BERGSTROM Fredrik
SWE.gif
79.0MR
7
BOUVET Sofian
MION Jeremie
FRA.gif
87.0MR
8
SCHMID Matthias
REICHSTAEDTER Florian
AUT.gif
87.0MR
9
BRAUCHLI Yannick
HAUSSER Romuald
SUI.gif
94.0MR
10
SNOW-HANSEN Paul
WILLCOX Daniel
NZL.gif
104.0MR
11
GERZ Ferdinand
SZYMANSKI Oliver
GER.gif
94.0
12
XAMMAR HERNANDEZ Jordi
HERP MORELL Joan
ESP.gif
97.0
13
SOZYKIN Pavel
GRIBANOV Denis
RUS.gif
117.0
14
CINAR Deniz
CINAR Ates
TUR.gif
120.0
15
LINDGREN Joonas
LINDGREN Niklas
FIN.gif
123.0
16
CALABRESE Lucas
DE LA FUENTE Juan
ARG.gif
129.0
17
DOI Kazuto
IMAMURA Kimihiko
JPN.gif
135.0
18
WANG Wei
XU Zangjun
CHN.gif
142.0
19
KIM Changju
KIM Jihoon
KOR.gif
146.0
20
JIM Asenathi
HUDSON Roger Beresford
RSA.gif
148.0
21
LEVINE Eyal
FROYLICHE Dan
ISR.gif
152.0
22
SAUNDERS Jacob
SAUNDERS Graeme
CAN.gif
159.0
23
HADDAD Henrique
BETHLEM Bruno
BRA.gif
167.0
24
DUCASSE Andres
DUCASSE Francisco
CHI.gif
171.0
25
SHVETS Borys
MATSUYEV Pavlo
UKR.gif
184.0
26
MONTINHO Matias
AFONSO Paixao
ANG.gif
229.0
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Naturally we had the tapes, so for fun we calculated who won without truncation. Of course we kept that tidbit of information to ourselves. Later that night, persons unknown (still unknown to this day) broke into the timing bldg at Birds of Prey and stole the tapes. The next day, the "real winner" was published in a bunch of newspapers in Europe, along with photos of the stolen tapes." "Yes, start gates are a technological mess. Not to mention there is no consistency, nor any flex standard, nor any thermocompensation standard, from wand to wand. So if you were to replace a wand mid-race, which most of us have done, you could be unknowingly changing your race results significantly. Certainly enough to break or make ties. "In the 90's, TAG Heuer had some very expensive experimental carbon fiber wands manufactured for World Cup because, in theory, carbon wands would be way stronger and hopefully more consistent than the fiberglass wands we were using at the time. This particular batch of wands was built by a Formula One supplier to a very tight tolerance, so they were supposedly very consistent and came with lab test data. The carbon wands worked great until we tried them at World Cup in Lake Louise @ -37C, whereupon they shattered like icicles every 5 racers or so. Working as an arm of TAG Heuer with factory support was a lot of fun back then because the big cheeses at the time, Jean Campiche and Ted Savage, were very interested in advancing the level of engineering, so we could get budgets to design and build new widgets and try new technologies from time to time. Some of the ideas worked, some of them didn't. "Having our tapes stolen at the WASC wasn't a catastrophe, but it was certainly amusing. They're not a secret. Any athlete or coach has the right to examine race tapes and do their own math, which is one of the successes of the TWG. It may seem like a big pain in the tush for timing geeks to fill out timing forms and submit their forms & tapes to the Chief of Timing, and I've certainly heard a ton of complaints about it. But in an era where there is extensive betting on ski racing and a lot of corruption & conflict of interest in the sports headlines, transparency is important. "I have no better idea than you as to whether wands will ever be replaced with photocells. I'm not on the TWG and I'm an engineer, not a politician. It's a FIS decision, a phrase which makes us all cringe. As a practical engineering matter, it's a no-brainer. Keep an unplugged start gate on the start post for TV and start the race with a photocell mounted 1m down the hill. Duh." "This (obviously) isn't a technological question, it's a philosophical question. Anybody with the skills necessary to time a ski race to 0.01 would most certainly be capable of timing one to 0.001 or 0.0001, if the greater resolution was what the rules called for. "Here's the reason. "The FIS Timing Working Group has been trying to get rid of mechanical start gates since the 80's. They maintain until that happens, the random mechanical slop inherent in mechanical switches and the random flex inherent in start wands makes timing to .001 simply a random draw. And they've proved it. Repeatedly. "The FIS TWG made their decision based on data collected by my technical group at FIS World Cup and the World Alpine Chmps in the 90's (as TAG Heuer) and then revisited based on data we collected in the 00's (as Rolex). We installed several sets of cells downhill of the start gate (on the start ramp) at 1m intervals and collected data for both men and women across all the disciplines. Analysis of the data clearly showed that mechanical start gates are, to a relevant resolution, random number generators. "This is a question much like the one brought up at the summer Olympics in Munich in 1972. A few months before the Olympics, FINA announced they'd obtained the technology to time swimming to .001, and would start at The Games. FINA were subsequently contacted by the engineering firm who'd designed and supervised construction of the pool in Germany. Representatives from the firm sent FINA a mathematical proof showing that at speeds typical for Olympic swimmers, the pool wasn't built to sufficient tolerances to where all lanes were of equal length to a degree where .001 would be fair. And notice...to this day...swimming also still publishes results only to 0.01. FINA have shelved the idea of 0.001 for over 40 years because no mechanical engineer will certify a pool with walls and touchpad mounts so precisely built that 0.001 would be consistent and fair across all lanes. "Think about it from an engineering standpoint.....let's say you had a time base accurate to 0.0000001 and photocells only accurate to 1.0 seconds. Sure, you could publish results to 0.000001, but anything beyond a full second would be random and therefore useless. "Mechanical start gates are an anachronism, but the TWG has to date been unable to get rid of them. It's a tradition FIS hasn't been willing to part with. Until that happens, publishing results to resolutions beyond 0.01 simply isn't fair because it's not accurate. It's proven to be random. "On another note, at the 1999 World Alpine Chmps at Beaver Creek, where we (TAG Heuer) were official timing, there was a tie for first in the mens SG between Kjus and Maier. Naturally we had the tapes, so for fun we calculated who won without truncation. Of course we kept that tidbit of information to ourselves. Later that night, persons unknown (still unknown to this day) broke into the timing bldg at Birds of Prey and stole the tapes. The next day, the "real winner" was published in a bunch of newspapers in Europe, along with photos of the stolen tapes." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Yes, start gates are a technological mess. Not to mention there is no consistency, nor any flex standard, nor any thermocompensation standard, from wand to wand. So if you were to replace a wand mid-race, which most of us have done, you could be unknowingly changing your race results significantly. Certainly enough to break or make ties. "In the 90's, TAG Heuer had some very expensive experimental carbon fiber wands manufactured for World Cup because, in theory, carbon wands would be way stronger and hopefully more consistent than the fiberglass wands we were using at the time. This particular batch of wands was built by a Formula One supplier to a very tight tolerance, so they were supposedly very consistent and came with lab test data. The carbon wands worked great until we tried them at World Cup in Lake Louise @ -37C, whereupon they shattered like icicles every 5 racers or so. Working as an arm of TAG Heuer with factory support was a lot of fun back then because the big cheeses at the time, Jean Campiche and Ted Savage, were very interested in advancing the level of engineering, so we could get budgets to design and build new widgets and try new technologies from time to time. Some of the ideas worked, some of them didn't. "Having our tapes stolen at the WASC wasn't a catastrophe, but it was certainly amusing. They're not a secret. Any athlete or coach has the right to examine race tapes and do their own math, which is one of the successes of the TWG. It may seem like a big pain in the tush for timing geeks to fill out timing forms and submit their forms & tapes to the Chief of Timing, and I've certainly heard a ton of complaints about it. But in an era where there is extensive betting on ski racing and a lot of corruption & conflict of interest in the sports headlines, transparency is important. "I have no better idea than you as to whether wands will ever be replaced with photocells. I'm not on the TWG and I'm an engineer, not a politician. It's a FIS decision, a phrase which makes us all cringe. As a practical engineering matter, it's a no-brainer. Keep an unplugged start gate on the start post for TV and start the race with a photocell mounted 1m down the hill. Duh."   "So there you have it, no point in going to higher accuracy results reporting, the mechanical start gate assembly makes it pointless."  
    • yes, it is, but FIS doesn't want to go that deep
    • Probably a casualty of reduced athlete numbers because they're not building an athlete's village.
    • These Swedish Champs are on non-geoblocked FTA if you want to watch them, although mixed up with lots of other sports like old traditional Swedish winter classics dating to the age of Gustavus Vasa like 10-pin bowling and E-Sports.     SM-veckan | SVT Play
    • Today I watched a bit of Finland-Sweden, not the best video quality, but at least there are no fixed cameras like in 2023. Also the livescore is markedly improved, I remember that in 2022 it was completely absent.  Sadly, the sport programme quality dropped, I think for a lack of venues   About the women's hockey results: Group A:  5-0 Group B:  5-2
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