davethedog
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I think utmost respect goes to JLC for not only doing that rescue but for the fact he is doing so well in a non-foiler!
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ctva
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I have to say the VD media is absolutely pants. Can’t even get the live stream on YouTube..
Their tracker is pants,
the website is pants
The live finish coverage is pants.
Their tracker is pants,
the website is pants
The live finish coverage is pants.
Bathdave
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I’m quite shocked that Dalin is minutes from finish and none of the platforms (YT, FB, website) are operating ..must be something gone technical ?
Ravi
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Add in the fact that their daily VG English broadcast is horribly amateurish with Andi randomly waving his hand over the weather/ tracker maps and mumbling something like, "errrr. and emm there you have the ... errrr... routings / weather / whatever". Before chatting to the guests about their own VG ambitions for 4 years in the future. You could forget that there is a race going on.
Add in the fact that 95% of the videos from the competitors are in French and it seems beyond the wit of the VG media management to find one of the billion online subtitle interpreters who ply their trade on the Internet. And, they say they want to stretch the VG audience beyond France. Well, duh, how about paying (quite literally!) a few euros to have each of your French videos subtitleded/dubbed into English, Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese?!!!!
Great race. Utterly shambolic media organisation!
EDIT SPeeeling
dunedin
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Suspect overloaded with people trying to get on?
Ravi
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Talking about how sh1te, the VG tracker and media team is ....
Apparently, Charlie crossed the finish at 19:35:47 UTC.
At 19:30 UTC, the VG tracker reported that Dalin was 1.5 Miles from the travelling at 11.6 kts.
At 19:38 UTC, the VG tracker reported that Dalin was 1.2 Miles from the travelling at 6.2 kts.
At 19:41 UTC, the VG tracker reported that Dalin was 1.2 Miles from the travelling at 7.3 kts.
At 19:43 UTC, the VG tracker reported that Dalin was 1.3 Miles from the travelling at 6.1 kts.
No fireworks and trumpets just bad data!
Apparently, Charlie crossed the finish at 19:35:47 UTC.
At 19:30 UTC, the VG tracker reported that Dalin was 1.5 Miles from the travelling at 11.6 kts.
At 19:38 UTC, the VG tracker reported that Dalin was 1.2 Miles from the travelling at 6.2 kts.
At 19:41 UTC, the VG tracker reported that Dalin was 1.2 Miles from the travelling at 7.3 kts.
At 19:43 UTC, the VG tracker reported that Dalin was 1.3 Miles from the travelling at 6.1 kts.
No fireworks and trumpets just bad data!
Allan
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Now Charlie's finished, Boris is heading for third across the line which will make him the winner, until Yannick crosses.
Allan
Allan
Ravi
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According to the VG tracker, Boris has been doing 6.5-7.5 knots for the last 30 minutes - changing his expected finish time from 5.7 hrs to ~ 12 hrs.
Either something is broken or there is a very strange localised weather anomaly. Either way, it looks like the race belongs to Yannick. The question is whether Boris can get a podium place.
Either something is broken or there is a very strange localised weather anomaly. Either way, it looks like the race belongs to Yannick. The question is whether Boris can get a podium place.
Buck Turgidson
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boris had a collision with a fishing vessel!
Kukri
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Perhaps he thought he had the right of way.
Ravi
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????????? - Where did you get that news?
EDIT - Just seen it on the VG web site.
Allan
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Wow! Boris hit a fishing boat! What drama!
Allan
Allan
Buck Turgidson
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You can be a dick at times mate. You do know you were completely wrong in the previous discussion.
ctva
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That smacks of the French stopping a foreigner winning..
Wife gutted as she wanted him to win.
Ravi
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Hmmm.. Is that a comment about 'foreigners' from the Brexiteer anti-European country?
Kukri
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ctva
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That has totally spoilt the whole race and excitement of the closest finish inVD history.
That is what it will be remembered for not whoever wins it.
That is what it will be remembered for not whoever wins it.
dune16
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Boris hit a fishing boat?
Buck Turgidson
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That is the same video that everyone else saw before commenting. You still claim Boris wasn't stand on? Of course he was and he shouldn't need to spend 30 minutes convincing the motor vessel.
ctva
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WT# did that come from?
It followed on from some of the commentary on the live broadcast about the fact that it would be a massive blow to French esteem (I paraphrase) if a foreigner who is German on a Monaco boat won.
Zero to do with anything else.