The official 2021 Tokyo Olympics thread

[tillerman]

Meanwhile no love lost between Camboni and Badloe in the windsurfer class.

Badloe was leading the regatta by 1 point from Camboni but Camboni protests Badloe for not leaing enough room at the windward mark.  Badloe finished 2nd in that race and Camboni 3rd.  Badloe was chucked so now Camboni is leading the regatta and Badloe in 3rd with 5 points to make up.

It's tough at the top!

 

[tillerman]

Ouch. I'm not big on flogging the US team for bad results, but how does this happen to a veteran of two Olympic regattas?  View attachment 453785

"It ain't over till it's over." - Yogi Berra

 

[gr8_Lakes_vibe]

Watched it in real time, USA had a nice gap to leeward, bow forward towards the boat end with ~5 seconds and just punched out too early, you could see it from the heli shot.

 

[tillerman]

Watched it in real time, USA had a nice gap to leeward, bow forward towards the boat end with ~5 seconds and just punched out too early, you could see it from the heli shot.

Hate it when that happens.

 

[animeproblem]

The Norwegian girl showing that her result in Melbourne was not just one lucky regatta.  She has come from midfleet to a front of the fleet sailor in the last 18 months. Impressive.

I was more than a little annoyed that the day 2 stream I was watching just happened to be showing commercials when she took the lead on what I believe was the first downwind.

 

[IPLore]

I was more than a little annoyed that the day 2 stream I was watching just happened to be showing commercials when she took the lead on what I believe was the first downwind.

which stream are you using? I cannot get streaming at all.

 

[animeproblem]

^I believe it is sort of a generic Xfinity Olympics stream, the 1st time I tried it a message came up telling me I had 30 mins on a free trial, since I'm a customer that was easy to fix.

(Just as well, haven't a clue what my actual Comcast password is!)

 

[IPLore]

Looks like Nepartak is going to dominate Olympic Sailing today and tomorrow

 

[Ncik]

Ouch. I'm not big on flogging the US team for bad results, but how does this happen to a veteran of two Olympic regattas?  View attachment 453785

Seems to be shifty conditions with wind coming off the land, there's been some big gains/losses upwind in other races.

 

[gr8_Lakes_vibe]

No doubt the first four races were tricky as hell- look at the throwout scores of the top 5. Yet with the exception of IRL (32nd), none of the other medal contenders are out of the top 11. Funny how the best are able to manage risk and keep some consistency. No other sailor with USA's experience and abilities are having such a bad start. Zero chance at a medal now, very slim chance of making the top 10. My question is how that happens.

 

[F18 Sailor]

I believe Paige finished inside the top 10 in the race she was very barely over in. I know I couldn’t sail a Laser anywhere near as well as her!!

This has been written about plenty before, and is a hot topic every 4 years or so…summary below:
The teams with the best chances of medalling have training partners that could be at the games, top coaching, and deep budgets supported by their national sailing bodies. That isn’t generally the case with the U.S Team; budgets tend to limit how many international events our athletes attend, and our competition is pretty stacked with Worlds experience from a very young age due to the structured development programs available within their countries.

I know the Nacra side well, and it’s going to be a tough battle between ITA, GBR, AUS, and ARG. These teams have the above recipe pretty well nailed. A few other teams are in with an outside chance in this fleet; anything can happen and at this level anyone can win a race and pull off an upset.

Rooting for as many medals as the USA team can manage to pull off!!

 

[tillerman]

No doubt the first four races were tricky as hell- look at the throwout scores of the top 5. Yet with the exception of IRL (32nd), none of the other medal contenders are out of the top 11. Funny how the best are able to manage risk and keep some consistency. No other sailor with USA's experience and abilities are having such a bad start. Zero chance at a medal now, very slim chance of making the top 10. My question is how that happens.

How does this happen? 

Paige had a few bad races.

She is still a better sailor than 99.99% of the people who read this thread.

And she will be a Master next year. 

 

[130lights]

49ERFX US in 3rd and 2nd in first two races. 
 

 

[ojfd]

Paige had a few bad races.

Well, according to Race 6 tracker, she's got UFD again!

 

[Couta]

Race 1 for the Finns showed a 47 degree RH shift on the second work......and the race committee let it go......that'll mix it up a bit!! I know it's just another regatta...and that we're supposed to suck it up and just sail....but this spot is another crap location that has massive tide and typhoon effects. Nothing says top level sailing like port tack starts!! Just wish we had less "wild card" factors in these events. Interesting to watch the 49ers abandon a race after 2.5 legs because of massive shifts.....anyway, probably time for someone to say something about "the cream always rises....blah blah...."

One day the IOC will give up the charade and admit that this event is just "sport as entertainment" to be marketed. At least then we'll have the chance to watch surfing in an industrial surf park, skateboarding in California, sailing in Auckland....all packaged for online consumption....selling coke and maccas. rant over (for now ;-) )

 

[chuso007]

I just can't find any place to watch the races (even not live)

This sucks

 

[barney]

Race 1 for the Finns showed a 47 degree RH shift on the second work......and the race committee let it go......that'll mix it up a bit!! I know it's just another regatta...and that we're supposed to suck it up and just sail....but this spot is another crap location that has massive tide and typhoon effects. Nothing says top level sailing like port tack starts!! Just wish we had less "wild card" factors in these events. Interesting to watch the 49ers abandon a race after 2.5 legs because of massive shifts.....anyway, probably time for someone to say something about "the cream always rises....blah blah...."

That was big yeah. Strangely enough, same top3 in both races though.

 

[barney]

I suppose every channel's broadcast is the same in terms of what they show from the races running alongside each other. Is there a way to figure out which events will be televised tomorrow?

 

[JMP]

I just can't find any place to watch the races (even not live)

This sucks

Use a VPN and connect to an Australian server, get a free account and watch live here: Sailing - Tokyo Olympics: Stream & Watch Olympic Sailing Online in Australia - Live, Free, Catch Up & Full Replays | 7plus

 

[shebeen]

sailing is hit and miss on our local broadcaster, about 12 channels but who knows when.

so it is over to the pirates we go, https://www.olympicstreams.me

what works here is, once past the pop ups there is actually so much more variety out there.

hopefully by paris there will be proper streaming and all the stuff that is actually getting televised can be available.

not sure if mentioned before, but live tracking is geo blocked too.

https://tokyo2020.sailing.org/multimedia/tracking/ find the available countries here.

but the us one seems to work for me

https://www.ussailing.org/olympics/tokyo/

i know it's all about the $$$$ but really pisses me off when something like the olympics is so restrictive and hard to follow