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VinLieger

That graphic cant be right, it shows half the fleet completely overlaying it

HeidiHeidi

VinLieger wrote: »

That graphic cant be right, it shows half the fleet completely overlaying it

That's what I thought, unless there's been windshifts during the leg.

Commentators seem do doubt the computer graphics quite a bit.

HeidiHeidi

Deleted User wrote: »

What was the blue boat that went around her?

I didn't see it, but there are jury boats and umpires all around the place, could have been one of those.

BoJack Horseman

Bit of a scrum getting around that marker.

Stheno

11th at first mark

Oooh someone hit the mark!

VinLieger

Finn Lynch currently 13th in mens Laser with 2 legs to go

HeidiHeidi

Looks like it's really lightening off.

Not good.

VinLieger

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Looks like it's really lightening off.

Not good.

She wasnt good downwind in London either, she usually made up the places on the upwind legs, did the same in the first race too. Once she gets the position she can defend its just looking like shes having trouble getting clear

HeidiHeidi

VinLieger wrote: »

She wasnt good downwind in London either, she usually made up the places on the upwind legs, did the same in the first race too. Once she gets the position she can defend its just looking like shes having trouble getting clear

Apparent wind is so much less going downwind, I think she needs it to be completely honking to be really effective.

Nice rounding there by her, albeit in a fairly low placing

VinLieger

Great, shes gone right on the next leg, looks like thats where the wind is, hopefully can find a lane

HeidiHeidi

How many will bounce off the mark this time??

Annalise doesn't seem to have made much gain on that beat.

marienbad

How many races are there and how many does she need to win - I know we were all experts after London but 4 years is a long time to remember .

Short refresher course please

HeidiHeidi

I really, really wish someone would teach that commentator how to pronounce Marit Bouwmeester's name :mad:

HeidiHeidi

marienbad wrote: »

How many races are there and how many does she need to win - I know we were all experts after London but 4 years is a long time to remember .

Short refresher course please

There are 10 races, and the top 10 (I think) go into the medal race, where all bets are off and winner takes all, even if you have 10 wins in the bag.

Which is where Annalise wuz robbed in London.

Stheno

marienbad wrote: »

How many races are there and how many does she need to win - I know we were all experts after London but 4 years is a long time to remember .

Short refresher course please

Ten qualifying races one is discarded and the top ten sailors go in the final

Joe_ Public

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

There are 10 races, and the top 10 (I think) go into the medal race, where all bets are off and winner takes all, even if you have 10 wins in the bag.

Which is where Annalise wuz robbed in London.

Is it double points in the last medal race or something like that? Its kind of coming fuzzily back to me now. I do remember that her final total in London would have won her a medal at nearly every other Games, or the previous few anyway...something in the low 50s or somethign like that.

HeidiHeidi

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Is it double points in the last medal race or something like that? Its kind of coming fuzzily back to me now. I do remember that her final total in London would have won her a medal at nearly every other Games, or the previous few anyway...something in the low 50s or somethign like that.

As far as I remember the sheet is wiped clean, and only your place in the medal race counts.

I think if the double points thing had applied she'd have won, having done so well in the qualifying races.

Joe_ Public

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

As far as I remember the sheet is wiped clean, and only your place in the medal race counts.

I think if the double points thing had applied she'd have won, having done so well in the qualifying races.

I'm quite possibly confusing that with another sport entirely! On that basis then the first 9 races are all about getting into the top 10?

HeidiHeidi

Joe_ Public wrote: »

I'm quite possibly confusing that with another sport entirely! On that basis then the first 9 10 races are all about getting into the top 10?

Yep. That's about the size of it.

VinLieger

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

As far as I remember the sheet is wiped clean, and only your place in the medal race counts.

I think if the double points thing had applied she'd have won, having done so well in the qualifying races.

Medal race is double points added to previous total and winner etc determined by that

https://www.facebook.com/AnnaliseMurphySailing/posts/1054350281320785

her facebook doing updates for anyone interested

HeidiHeidi

VinLieger wrote: »

Medal race is double points added to previous total and winner etc determined by that

Are you sure??? I remember huge debate about that, and that Annalise had been so far ahead after the 10 races that she'd have wiped it in the medal race, but it was only the medal race that counted.

Open to correction, obviously.

Strazdas

Annalise 4th in the competition overall as things stand.....that sounds like a very solid first day

VinLieger

14th but shes not out of it by a long stretch yet and theres always a discard result, 4th overall after day 1

Joe_ Public

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Are you sure??? I remember huge debate about that, and that Annalise had been so far ahead after the 10 races that she'd have wiped it in the medal race, but it was only the medal race that counted.

Open to correction, obviously.

I just checked the 2012 results, all 10 races count with one discard and double for the medal race. She had a 19th place there so 14th doesn't seem all that bad today.

Cosmo Kramer

4th overall after day 1 is good but I'd still have her as a fairly long shot for a medal. She will need the wind to blow all week to have a chance.

Call me Al

Who was the sailing interviewee in the RTE studio?

Strazdas

LOL @ the O'Donovan brothers saying they would have loved to have a crack at the stormy conditions in the rowing yesterday had it not been cancelled : they say they're well used to it down in Skibbereen

Joe_ Public

"Just another regatta at the end of the day."

Ha ha. Love those O'Donovan bros, cute cork hoors boy!! Will be keeping my eye on them for sure!!

VinLieger

Call me Al wrote: »

Who was the sailing interviewee in the RTE studio?

Dave McHugh is his name