Olympics daily thread

nomdeboardie

ahlookit wrote: »

and there's a wind at the diving centre too

Saw that afterwards scrolling through my thread backlog :pac:

Irish guy got a good second dive

And of course we have the sailing coverage looking good now

ahlookit

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Saw that afterwards scrolling through my thread backlog :pac:

Irish guy got a good second dive

And of course we have the sailing coverage looking good now

yep, but they all have 6 dives, so will be going on for a while

Joe_ Public

ahlookit wrote: »

do you have access to rte player?

Yep I've got it...crisis averted. Ship ahoy!

Stheno

Dan man wrote: »

Sounds good, then the question is, how big is the wind?

25 knots with gusts

Fook looks like abandoned due to too much wind

ahlookit

ah here, now it might be too windy???

fergal.b

39 knots of wind :eek:





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neris

40 knots this wont go ahead... some one bought prof a wardrobe for rte, dont think ive ever seen dressed up

HeidiHeidi

Jaysus, zero to hero to all off within a half hour :eek::eek:

Feck's sake!

KevIRL

All off

Cosmo Kramer

Postponed - too windy. You've got to be kidding me!

HeidiHeidi

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Yep I've got it...crisis averted. Ship ahoy!

Different crisis now :mad:

Dan man

Typical luck :rolleyes:

LC2016

Annalise's Twitter claiming race is going ahead tonight??

nomdeboardie

Dan man wrote: »

Sounds good, then the question is, how big is the wind?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hJQ18S6aag

Cosmo Kramer

That blast of wind could have been great for Annalise. Hopefully the wind blows again tomorrow.

HeidiHeidi

LC2016 wrote: »

Annalise's Twitter claiming race is going ahead tonight??

Not any more it's not

KevIRL

To my uneducated eye its more than likely for the best. The strength of the wind and gusts could have just made it a complete lottery, no?

Joe_ Public

Is a knot < or > than a mile?

neris

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Jaysus, zero to hero to all off within a half hour :eek::eek:

Feck's sake!

like dublin bay

ahlookit

Lads in studio "100,000% confident there will be racing tomorrow"


.....so you're saying there's a chance???

HeidiHeidi

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Is a knot < or > than a mile?

Knot = 1 nautical mile per hour - so just over a land/statute mile per hour

neris

KevIRL wrote: »

To my uneducated eye its more than likely for the best. The strength of the wind and gusts could have just made it a complete lottery, no?

would do but also more risk of gear failure

nomdeboardie

ahlookit wrote: »

yep, but they all have 6 dives, so will be going on for a while

Oh I know - commentator mentioned 3 hours :eek:

marienbad

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Knot = 1 nautical mile per hour - so just over a land/statute mile per hour

is a nautical mile any different to a statute mile ? Is just over the sea rather than land ?

HeidiHeidi

marienbad wrote: »

is a nautical mile any different to a statute mile ? Is just over the sea rather than land ?

1 nautical mile = 1.1508 statute (land) mile

Stheno

marienbad wrote: »

is a nautical mile any different to a statute mile ? Is just over the sea rather than land ?

Think it's 1.2 statute miles?

HeidiHeidi

Right... now what to watch?

Do we still have a diver on the go?

ahlookit

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Oh I know - commentator mentioned 3 hours :eek:

I hope those judges high chairs are comfortable....

Stheno

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Right... now what to watch?

Do we still have a diver on the go?

We do.

Four more dives I think

nomdeboardie

Note to self - just don't comment on wind (especially taunting it with Monty Python)

It has laid low the sailors of Rio