49er skiff, Qingdao 05.08.2008.

Practice before the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Qingdao

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Sports

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• qingdao
• olympics
• sailing
• 49er
• croatia
• hrvatska
• kostov
• cupac
• uskok
• zadar
• skiff
• china

[ivanbulaja]

Check the Swedish laser sailor who lost medal because British guy match raced him to the last place. Without the Medal race he could have that discard.

[ivanbulaja]

The Croatian boat was measured before the race and was under the class rules. Anyway Danish only needed to finish the race to win gold since 2 boats retired so they could also finish last and still have it (considering not having camera) . So there was no advantage! The other thing is that ISAF should reconsider Medal Race format since it is not fair to lose something you build in previous 12 races.

[ivanbulaja]

Danish gold is well deserved! Sailing others people 49er in that conditions is twice as hard as sailing your own. They started 4 minutes after everybody else and were probably under great stress at that time so if u think they had an advantage you are very wrong. We would give that boat to ANY other team ( Spanish even ) if they broke something because it should be decided on water.

[gelle81]

but on the way out to the start the danish boat there mast broke.

so they went to shore and after a while they got out on the water again in croatia´s boat.

denmark was not ready when the other boats started.

they start a couple of minuts after the others but still came in 7 and won the gold overall.

thanks again to the croatia team.

from a danish dude :-)

[ivanbulaja]

You are welcome! It was least we could do to help.

[Claasinator001]

ich finde das video sooo geil

1) geile Segel aufnahmen

2) super Musik

[nickdinosaurs]

my windows 95 came with a video that looked like this. To think. we have come so far with such little effort on my part.

[wikivaki]

bravooo pavleeeeee  !!!!!!!!!

[tarcoman]

man oh man Australia was there

oh well good job Nathan

we are still rooting for ya

take this into perspective the swimmers do 1 race 1 medal

sailor do 10+ races with one medal lol

abit unfair but thats the way we like it

[sanderpaas]

they're better sailors than the rest, they deserved to win

[Bakes0011]

Your mast breaks before a race, you don't have time to fix it. Another boat is there, with normal equipment, safety, and whilst the identification is for another boat, it would have been registered as part of the olympics, and was fine.

None of the other teams actually had a major failiure 30 minutes before a race.

The result was deemed legal, so what is your problem with it?

I imagine the people who wrote the rules know them slightly better than you?

(yes, I know this is late)

[missinmamartinez]

There is no written rule about borrowing someone else's boat but THERE IS regulation about your correct display of identification, equipment and safety in order when your boat's inspected.

THE DANES SIMPLY DINT GIVE A TOSS.

THAT's what's wrong for all the rest of the teams that DID OBSERVE THIS RULE.

It is incredibly arrogant not to go out to compete under another country's flag confusing everyone and taking the piss.

[VSCSDK]

I agree, not just because I'm Danish, but because they (incl. thr Croatian) showed so much sportsmanship!

If one of the other boats had done the same, I would think the exact same about them =D!

Good sportsmanship! Beautiful!

[Ekkaiadil]

The aim of regattas is to find the best sailing team, it even does not matter on whose boat! Moreover! They finished the race on the 7th position, which shows that they are excellent sailors. The Danish deserved gold.

[surfinsven]

I think denmark deserves gold!

like ivan bulaja says it should be desided on water!

look how fast they got the spinnaker at 1:10!