Sailing at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[Epic Failure 355]

  On 8/3/2024 at 12:56 PM, Faramir said:

But I checked and Wilson suffered the same fate in the 2024 and 2023 WCh after clearly winning the series...so maybe it's her own limit of not being able to deliver in a single race with all the pressure on her.

 

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Undoubtedly true.

 

But someone smarter than me would have to explain whether there is a difference in skill in terms of fleet racing with a large pack vs a 3 way battle. i.e. might it not be an inability to handle pressure but rather a slightly different skill set required for this form?

 

It seems slightly odd to me - even though I've defended the system above - that most of the other events have a more traditional 10 boat medal race but this event alone has changed to this. 

[AmericanHero40 216]

Yesssss!!!!! Wooohooo!!!!! Gold and Silver!!!!!

 

[Faramir 372]

  On 8/3/2024 at 1:05 PM, Epic Failure said:

But someone smarter than me would have to explain whether there is a difference in skill in terms of fleet racing with a large pack vs a 3 way battle. i.e. might it not be an inability to handle pressure but rather a slightly different skill set required for this form?

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It's possible, I don't know enough about this. Regarding today, experts seems to think that Wilson committed a very very bad mistake (and Kantor followed her) - an Italian sailing website wrote that (Wilson) "goes so fast that she does not need to think" and completely missed the correct line.

[Epic Failure 355]

  On 8/3/2024 at 3:52 PM, Faramir said:

It's possible, I don't know enough about this. Regarding today, experts seems to think that Wilson committed a very very bad mistake (and Kantor followed her) - an Italian sailing website wrote that (Wilson) "goes so fast that she does not need to think" and completely missed the correct line.

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Yeah, that seems to be the consensus of some other people I've read as well.

 

I was just musing about the wider discussion. Like you, I don't know enough myself to voice an opinion one way or another.

[TeamGB 186]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/c3g9ggerdg3o

[Olympicsnell 300]

Do enjoy how 9 times out of 10 there is never any sailing on the sailing stream...despite there being races on

[heywoodu 15,295]

This 9th Laser/Dinghy/ILCA 6 race is hilarious, they're barely moving and it's been going on for ages  

[heywoodu 15,295]

Race 10 was abandoned and now apparently Bouwmeester is the champion. What a climax!

 

 

[hckošice 15,055]

Medal races delayed

[Olympicsnell 300]

has this been a poor choice of venue? is there never any wind in Marseille?