49ers - amazing race

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Sorry for everyone who didn't bother to watch because we weren't up for a medal. It was the most amazing race I've ever seen /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I counted 13 capsizes, including the GB team who pitchpoled twice. The Brazilians finished under jib alone, the US gave up. The Danes, sailing in a hastily borrowed boat having broken their mast just before the start and starting after the rest of the fleet, managed to finish 7th to get the gold. They capsized 200m from the line and the gold was dependant on them getting upright quicker than the other 3 crews who were swimming behind them.

Absolutely rivetting. If you get a chance to see a repeat, put out the cat & dog, lock the kids in their rooms, tape over SWMBO's mouth but WATCH IT!
 
agree.... too much drama... even better than bens race /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

didn't the danish do well in the croatian boat
 
...The Danes... managed to finish 7th to get the gold...
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have they? I watched the race and would agree that it's worth another viewing given the chance; it was my belief too that the Danes won overall, but I've heard elsewhere that Spain's won gold with Denmark second? Having looked at some of the medal tables published on the internet I can't find a confirmation of 49er medals being awarded to anyone.
 
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...The Danes... managed to finish 7th to get the gold...


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It's not finished yet.....The Danes have been protested by the race committee for using borrowed equipment. It will be a travesty if they are DSQ and loose a medal after all that excitement.
 
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The Danes have been protested by the race committee for using borrowed equipment.

[/ QUOTE ]FFS what difference does that make? If anything they're disadvantaged by unfamiliar equipment!




[/ QUOTE ]It will be a travesty if they are DSQ and loose a medal after all that excitement.

[/ QUOTE ]Too bloody right!!!

Except perhaps if we were up for the gold if they were disqualified.... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
I caught it on BBCi as a replay last night. What a barnstorming race! Makes me remember when I raced Lasers as a yoof - too cold and too wet for me!
 
Without doubt the most amazing sailing I have watched during the last 40 years of watching...........brilliant, brilliant brilliant!!! will be talked about for years to come.....talk about sailing on a knife edge!!!!!

Paul.
 
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You do realise though that you are not allowed to post Olympic threads on here?

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"The answer is in the plural and they bounce"
-Sir Edwin Lutyens
 
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I counted 13 capsizes,
Absolutely rivetting.

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I agree but as I watched it I did think that the conditions were too severe for a 49 as evidenced by the best in the world having 13 capsizes and askerd myself was it fair to hold the race in those conditions when the results are effectively a lottery?

Pleased the unsporting protest got thrown out - where is the olympian spirit?
 
I also thought it should have been postponed in the interests of fair competition. It just made fantastic watching. So the Danes have a gold in recovering from a capsize quicker than everyone else!

What is it about those boats that makes them go 180° instantly - do they have buoyancy in the wings?
 
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