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Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Tornado] #152391
08/20/08 11:23 PM 08/20/08 11:23 PM
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CAN 2nd to the 1st gate behind GBR.

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Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Tornado] #152392
08/20/08 11:31 PM 08/20/08 11:31 PM
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GBR, then CAN to 2nd top mark. NED third, ESP 4th.

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Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Tornado] #152393
08/20/08 11:36 PM 08/20/08 11:36 PM
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With CAN 2nd and ARG in 6th...CAN is in a bronze placing on the course at this moment!

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Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Tornado] #152394
08/20/08 11:36 PM 08/20/08 11:36 PM
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Germany cant right their cat afetr being in 4th
Aust 5th

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Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: JeffS] #152395
08/20/08 11:42 PM 08/20/08 11:42 PM
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It's over...GBR, CAN, NED, ESP,AUS,ARG,AUT,ITA.

CAN ends in 4th overall...61 point to ARG's 56.

Fantastic footage!

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Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Tornado] #152396
08/20/08 11:45 PM 08/20/08 11:45 PM
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Awesome footage. Pan, tilt, and zoom onboard cameras was rockin'!

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Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: P.M.] #152397
08/20/08 11:50 PM 08/20/08 11:50 PM
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Great cameras and good commentator too, well sailed Spain.
Did any NZ sailors apart from Windsurfer beat the 5th that NZ got in the Tornado worlds

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Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: P.M.] #152398
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The Spanish and Argentinians are doing a few victory laps past the pier.
Pretty nasty conditions though (washing machine).

Gold-ESP
Silver-AUS
Bronze-ARG
Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Tony_F18] #152399
08/20/08 11:53 PM 08/20/08 11:53 PM

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Don't want to sound bitter but the Greeks cost their Aussie training partners any hope of a gold with that start.
Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: P.M.] #152400
08/20/08 11:56 PM 08/20/08 11:56 PM
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Looks like ESP team coaches & family memebers are trying to sink the gold winning boat! 10 Spaniards jumping up an down on the tramp and she's still floating! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

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Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Tornado] #152401
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Final results - Gold ESP, Silver AUS, Bronze ARG.

You have to wonder about the line/course or whatever, when 9 out of 10 boats in the medal race start on port ....
Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Lennie] #152402
08/21/08 12:09 AM 08/21/08 12:09 AM
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Well done ESP. If you win 4 races from 11, you deserve to come away with Gold.

That footage was Gold also. If that does not work in the Multihulls favour to return to the Games, then nothing will.

Bundy / Ashby, well done. It is sad to see arguably the greatest Tornado helmsman there ever was.... Never win a Gold. Bring the T back for London so he can have another crack at it.
Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Lennie] #152403
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Final results - Gold ESP, Silver AUS, Bronze ARG.

You have to wonder about the line/course or whatever, when 9 out of 10 boats in the medal race start on port ....


I would have to agree. That possibly spoiled the last race.
Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Tony_F18] #152404
08/21/08 12:28 AM 08/21/08 12:28 AM
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The Spanish and Argentinians are doing a few victory laps past the pier.
Pretty nasty conditions though (washing machine).

Gold-ESP
Silver-AUS
Bronze-ARG


"Nasty conditions"???? Looks like what we sail in every weekend, with waves bouncing off marina walls, shipping going by etc, etc. I really need to get out of town more often to go sailing.
Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: ckuang] #152405
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Tornado conditions..... Perhaps needed another 5 knots.
Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Tornado_ALIVE] #152406
08/21/08 02:23 AM 08/21/08 02:23 AM
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Well done! Paz & Echevarri. Campeones!

It's curious, Spain has a superb Tornado history these recent years. Yet we see at national level:
* the cat scene in decline
* (almost) no Tornados racing
* No relevant international participation (with a couple of exceptions)

The effect of this gold medal is ZERO for spanish cat sailing.

We are proud, of course. But this year nats (in 20 days now for all cats together) we will struggle to achive last year numbers.

aestela.
Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Tornado_ALIVE] #152407
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Well done ESP. If you win 4 races from 11, you deserve to come away with Gold.

That footage was Gold also. If that does not work in the Multihulls favour to return to the Games, then nothing will.

Bundy / Ashby, well done. It is sad to see arguably the greatest Tornado helmsman there ever was.... Never win a Gold. Bring the T back for London so he can have another crack at it.


And Maybe Leigh and Will can put a better (consistant) set of results together.

Good Job Boys and lets have it back for 2012........

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Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: aestela] #152408
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Ok, so here we are at the very formal, very emotional medal ceremony for the Tornado at the Olympic Games. The person presenting the flowers is the ISAF Vice President from Australia, Mr David Kellet. It's pouring with rain, so the medal presenters are wearing very fetching cheap plastic ponchos.

Mr Kellet offers his congratulations to Glenn Ashby, the Silver Medallist from Australia and presents the flowers. The crew then thanks Mr Kellet with the comment "You look like a condom". Lucky the music is loud and the effects mike doesn't pick it up .....

Well gone Glenn.
Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: Lennie] #152409
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ha! that's funny. love the Australians
Re: Olympic Tornado TV Coverage??? [Re: ckuang] #152410
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Here is PU's last message regarding the race. It explains why everybody started on port.
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Well, thats over.

We did the Tornados first then the Stars.
Set the start line close to the breakwater so that if they started on starboard they could go about 4 tenths before they had to tack. That put them at the media tower at the east end of the breakwater.
The winds were around 15 knots so we set the weather mark at 125 degrees and 1.4 nautical miles. W2 (two laps) with a target time of 30 minutes.
All the tornados except Greece started on Port tack to go out for just one tack to the weather mark. Also there was more presure there. The Greek on Starboard went about 300 meters and ripped his mainsail so had to retire.
We misssed the target time by 20 seconds. (30 minutes and 20 seconds)
Spain won the gold.
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