Women's Laser Radial Sailing Final Full Replay – London 2012 Olympics
Women's Laser Radial Sailing Final Full Replay – London 2012 Olympics
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Full coverage full Weymouth & Portland as China’s Lijia Xu wins gold in the women’s laser radial sailing event as the Netherlands’ Marit Bouwmeester wins silver and Belgium’s Evi Van Acker wins bronze at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Sailing was first contested as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Games. Since then, the classes of boats allowed to compete have continually evolved to reflect advances in yacht design and technology. Equipment advances over the past 20 years have created a trend towards smaller and lighter craft, placing ever greater demands on both the athletic and technical capacities of the sailors.
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I can’t wait to watch my favorite sailor (Xu Lijia) Win at #Rio2016!!
The commentary on this is sometimes completely misses the point in my opinion. Too much focus on bodyweight and misses aspects like CHN and BEL tacking back after the shift to reduce their risk and also CHN managing to fight to skilfully gain the leeward position and luff up NED and GBR. I understand it’s a very difficult job but there’s no need to be talking the whole time if there’s nothing to say.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Xu Lijia!
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The talking heads again missed the brilliant display by China. Outweighed but certainly not out sailed China picked a completely different course suited for her. She lead from the start to the finish even when given a bogus penalty very unbecoming for the judges. The story is China out sailed the group and out gunned even when given a bogus penalty. This is how you turn lemons into lemonade and make the judges look very foolish. Congrats China only the foolish would fail to acknowledge your mastery of this race.
I bought Sari Multalas (FIN) lower mast in 2011. Still works great for my purposes!
Should be in Europe Dinghy’s 🦦🚬🐿🍻
Amazing work by Xu Lijia! How can she be so fast downwind? Also, did you notice that her sail is slightly luffing always on the upwind legs?
The winner is literally my relative xD
Why is the commentator talking so much about weight?
it seems that the finland team always start at the pin
These announcers accents are annoying as hell.
and people think rugby is a hard sport -_-
Any guess on how many knots the wind was in this race?
I think there is a significant amount of current coming from upwind from looking at the video. that would mean she kept going left upwind and went right downwind to stay in the favored current
Xu rocks, she seems to be in accord with the forces, sailing gently, efficiently. The rest have methods… Xu so elegant and composed. Medal well deserved.
Kizo
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It’s funny how I get a huge amount of respect for sailing, like everyone is like How’s sailing, did you sail this week etc.
And then some here are saying they don’t see sailing as a sport🤷♂️
10:44 start
17:21 1st mark
20:55 2nd mark
27:15 3rd mark
30:40 4ht mark
37:00 5ht mark
41:03 finish
8:04: Current objective: survive (for the commentator)
How do they know which buoy to take at the bottom mark?
My guess for the Rio 2016 podium:
1 Van Acker
2 Bouwmeester
3 Young
Really bad camera work haha. I wanted to see how they all contest the buoys and they zoom in on 1 sailor??!
40:40 look that Chinese girl knew that there has been a wind shift therefore she didn’t do a perfect downwind instead did a "reach" while other idiots were simply doing downwind and got so behind.
the "chinese girl" is leading the race but the commentators barely say her name, it’s incredible!
"the chinese girl"
Annaluise Murphy is my cousin that’s the only reason why I’m watching this