Sailing WS World Championships 2018

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  On 8/4/2018 at 10:54 AM, heywoodu said:

I don't have the illusion that any of us can make better photos of the action than the professionals, I'm mostly interested in a general picture of how it's looking there at the coast  

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Well. I did catch some pretty decent pictures when we hosted the 49er Europeans

But will do.

BTW decent windy conditions with some foiling action from some of the Nacras training.

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Flags from outside the International sailing center

 

 

The crowd between races

 

Some foiling action just in front of the main spectator area

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The first fleets getting back

 

 

 

 

 

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Great win for Jena and Katja!

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Not the best 4th race for Anne-Marie Rindom, 18th. Besides that, she is number 2 in the overall ranking after 4 races (with discard) 

Also some love and respect to one of our Nordic brothers, Anton Dahlberg and Frederik Bergstroem are leading men's 470 after 6 races (with discard) 

Edited August 4, 2018 by wumo26

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  On 8/3/2018 at 6:44 PM, phelps said:

day #2 recap

 

Men's Laser (2 races): Sam Meech 2 pts, Kaarle Tapper 4 pts, Nick Thompson 5 pts

 

Women's Laser Radial (2 races): Vasileia Karachaliou 3 pts, Paige Riley 3 pts, Marit Bouwmeester 5 pts, Line Flem Host 5 pts

 

Finn (4 races): Pieter-Jan Postma 7 pts, Tom Ramshaw 12 pts, Josip Olujic 12 pts

 

Men's 470 (4 races): Kazuto Doi/Naoya Kimura 9 pts, Anton Dahlberg/Fredrik Bergstrom 9 pts, Jordi Xammar Hernandez/Nicolàs Rodrìguez Garcìa-Paz 11 pts

 

Women's 470 (4 races): Ai Kondo Yoshida/Miho Yoshioka 10 pts, Hannah Mills/Eilidh McIntyre 11 pts, Camille Lecointre/Aloise Retornaz 12 pts

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Japan is good in sailing?

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  On 8/4/2018 at 2:45 PM, OlympicsFan said:

Japan is good in sailing?

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not generally speaking, but they have good tradition in 470 class, especially on the women's side...

Ai Kondo is a longtime medal contender in this class and I had no doubt she would get even better now that she has the chance to sail the Olympic regatta at home (probably Tokyo 2020 will be her last outing in this class, too)...

the male crew is more a surprise at this level, but not a Cinderella story like Ireland at the hockey world cup, just to make an example...

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Wow Canada has some decent results!

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  On 8/4/2018 at 2:56 PM, phelps said:

 

not generally speaking, but they have good tradition in 470 class, especially on the women's side...

Ai Kondo is a longtime medal contender in this class and I had no doubt she would get even better now that she has the chance to sail the Olympic regatta at home (probably Tokyo 2020 will be her last outing in this class, too)...

the male crew is more a surprise at this level, but not a Cinderella story like Ireland at the hockey world cup, just to make an example...

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Not really sailing related ... but: Has Ireland beaten any good team at the hockey world cup? In my opinion they got lucky with the draw/underperforming of big nations, dont see them coming anywhere near a medal in 2020.

Edit: Also has nothing to do with the sailing world championships, but i recently looked up the results of the sailing youth world championships and if those results have any "value", then USA will be a sailing powerhouse in a couple of years, they won like half of the gold medals at the youth world championships.

Edited August 4, 2018 by OlympicsFan

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  On 8/4/2018 at 3:02 PM, OlympicsFan said:

Not really sailing related ... but: Has Ireland beaten any good team at the hockey world cup? In my opinion they got lucky with the draw/underperforming of big nations, dont see them coming anywhere near a medal in 2020.

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when you're not among the strongest teams entering an event, you always need some luck/good draw...

they've been able to take advantage of the other teams' mistakes (England was supposed to dominate their group in the 1st stage and be where Ireland is now, but they didn't...so, we have this nice Irish tale)...

however, I also think they won't be among the top 4 in Tokyo...actually, I think they won't even qualify for the Olympics (where I guess there will be only 4, max 5 European teams -NED, GER, GBR, BEL and maybe ESP- no ITA nor IRL, I fear)...