Olympic Preview, Day 9
Australian Sailing Team Leader Iain Murray on the competition and success so far, and what we could see Australia accomplish.
Written by Iain Murray
02 August 2021
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Yesterday was a great day, we had Matt leading the charge with his Medal Race. Now our focus is entirely on today and the teams who are yet to complete their regattas. We have the Nacras and Jake [Lilley] in the Finn preparing for Medal Races tomorrow, and of course our two 470 teams competing in their final fleet races today.
The current conditions would be described as perfect water-skiing weather. The wind is light and variable at the moment. We have a small front ridge that is offshore from us right now, which we are expecting to arrive at around two or three o’clock (JST).
That’s going to bring clouds, potentially some rain and thunder storms. Once that passes, we are expecting some gradient winds behind it which is what we might need to get some races in.
It is going to be quite difficult until that happens, there might be some sitting around and waiting for the ridge to pass over us and hopefully we will get some racing in on the back of that.
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Nia and Monique will be finishing off their Olympic experience today and they are taking it all in. They now have a clear understanding of what the Olympics are all about, so this has been an invaluable experience for them.
Hopefully they will finish off with some good scores today, but their slotted race time today is in some really tricky conditions. With the expected weather, there is a real chance they will be postponed and moved to tomorrow’s Reserve Day.
Mat and Will are on an outer course later in the afternoon so there are reasonable prospects that they will get some racing in. They have eight outstanding scores on their card, so effectively they only need one more today.
The plan for today is to just keep on doing what they are doing. We’d like to finish the scorecard off and hopefully take a good margin into the Medal Race.
Today’s racing will begin this afternoon and will be streaming live on 7Plus.
This article was originally published by Australian Sailing
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