London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

Sea Filly wrote: »

I'm not liking the fact that Katie is fighting a British girl.

I have a feeling that katie will really need to hammer her on points if shes to progress, as if its tight, we could be on the end of a homer.

Sea Filly wrote: »

Really wish I wasn't right here.

Ireland do near misses so well

after building up a huge lead with four straight wins - we watched that lead slowly being erased from race to race and deep down we all feared this would happen because it has happened so many times in the past to irish teams/individuals

we don't do leading very well


seems like she made the same mistake going downwind three times

the chinese, dutch and belgian (who was way back at one point) produced the goods when needed and finished 1,2 and 3 - they were the best sailors out there simply because they performed when it counted, Annalise made errors of judgement at the most crucial time and that's why she gets no medal - but she is young and hopefully she will have learned from this and come good in Rio

I don't know if it's an Irish thing or what but we seem to have issues performing under pressure, maybe the reason is simply because we so rarely put ourselves in a position to win where pressure exists and for that at least we should acknowledge how well Annalise has done so a very impressive, predictable and painful fourth it is

Sea Filly wrote: »

My Dad thinks we just lack focus, we have a "Ah shure, I'm just happy to be here" kind of attitude, no killer extinct. Except Sonia, who had it in spades.

roy keane is famous for saying we're terrible for it too and i think you dad and keano have a point unfortunately