Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Brits on Top Again


Congratulations to all four British gold medal winners at the recent Sailing World Cup event, the Princess Sofia Trophy in Palma. Ben Ainsle won the Finn class, Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson won the Stars, and Paul Goodison won the Lasers. This is an excellent set of results and bodes well for a huge medal haul by the British sailing team at the Olympics next year.





The video above shows the medal race in the Lasers. For once, the medal race really did decide all the medals. Going into the race, only two points separated Goodison, fellow Brit Nick Thomson, and Aussie Tom Slingsby. At the first windward mark, Goodison was in the lead with a good few boats between him and the other medal contenders. After a safe run, he loosely covered his two rivals on the second beat and that was enough to win him the gold.





This post was sponsored by the Daughters and Sons of the British Empire, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Chapter, Ladies Cricket Team who would have made a generous contribution to the Tillerman Laser Sailing 2011 Campaign and Tuesday Night Beer Fund if only I had asked more nicely.

6 comments:

JP said...

Hurrah Huzzah!!

Britannia rules the waves! (etc)

HM said...

Splendid. One is moved.

Mojo said...

HM - Your Majesty, I admit I'm a boorish american, but what happened to the royal "we"?

The third person is so impersonal, the times being what they are...

... and so on and so forth.

Mojo said...

Not to mention the nuptials.

Anonymous said...

Did anyone else think they saw the odd boom hit the odd mark?

Steve

Tillerman said...

Steve, some of those windward mark roundings did look very close, didn't they? But in such a high stakes race with all the contestants sailing so close to each other, I can't believe that anyone could hit the mark and not be protested.

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