Sailing Olympics. Renna breaks boom, seeks damages. Compensated, now fourth!

Sailing Olympics, the Renna case

A misleading placement because the Trentino athlete (born in Rovereto in 2001) was penalized by two DNFs (did not finish, withdrawals) in trials 2-3 due to boom breakage.

Nicolo Renna “asked for damages” from the jury.

We had also told you that Renna had put forth a repair request to the Race Committee for the two trials in question.
Why did he do this?
Simple, because the equipment with which one races at the Olympics is not owned by the athlete, but is provided by the Organizing Committee.
This is to assure all athletes that boards, sails, rigs are perfectly one-design, that is, equal to each other, and that no one is favored by the medium. Thus, Renna would not have been at fault if the equipment provided to him was found to be defective.

What is the repair request

How does the request for repair work? If it is granted, the athlete is usually awarded, in the trial in which he or she was damaged, a score equal to the average of the placings so far. The acronym for the placing, in the ranking, is RDG, or Redress Given (“repair granted” in English).
Beware, however, because by rule the calculation is discretionary, sometimes it is an average of the regattas up to that point sometimes it is an average of all the regattas up to the end of the championship.
In the latter case, it makes the athlete super vulnerable because a heavy score or disqualification also affects the repair.

Renna compensated flies to second place

And now, we come to the Renna case.
Assisted by Technical Director Michele Marchesini (who played an important role in the affair), Nicolò at the end of the day presented two requests for repairs: – For race 2 because the material provided by the organization (in the specific case the boom connection last July 20, before training in Marseille) broke and he had to withdraw from the race.
– For race 3 because the repair was not done correctly and the committee did not wait for Nicolò to give the start, as they did in the 49er FX (women’s skiff) field where they waited for the Polish boat to replace the gennaker to start procedures.
After two and a half hours of discussion with the parties and a never-ending council chamber with two recalls in the hearing by the Jury, the verdict was thus reached at twenty-two fifteen: – Repair granted for Test 2 because the organization’s equipment should not have broken.
repair is the average of the results of all slalom trials including trial 3 (DNF) but excluding trial 2, and therefore in trial two Renna was awarded an RDG with a score of 10.3.
– Repair not granted for trial 3 because he retired after the start of the race having realized the problems with the boom connection.
He should have realized it earlier, so he is partially responsible for his DNF. In any case, things changed, and by a lot. Renna has jumped to fourth overall (2-RDG-DNF-4-2-5) since the worst trial discard is already in effect, and he is only 4.3 points behind the overall leader, Dutchman Luuc Van Opzeeland.
Today it is back on the water.

Go Nicolo!

Why is it important to be up there in front?
Because if you finish second or third, in the first round of races, you miss the playoffs which, on the other hand, must face athletes ranked fourth to tenth to get into the semifinals, and you go directly into the semifinals.
If you finish the first round of races in first place, even, you go directly into the finals: you already have a medal for sure and rest your mind and body.

Back on the water today.
Come on Nico, you don’t need “RDG” to prove your worth, we all know that one!

Eugenio Ruocco and Lamberto Cesari

How to follow the sailing Olympics live

You can follow the Sailing Olympics “live” if you have a subscription to Discovery Plus: RAI and other pay channels will broadcast any medal races if there are real medal chances.
Tofind out everything about the schedule, we recommend you check the official World Sailing schedule while to be updated on the results in real time at this link all the rankings. There is also a dedicated page on the Sport Sailing website, Where to follow live race tracking.

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Olympics, how regattas work

Depending on the classes competing(everything you need to know about the classes here), athletes competing in the Marseille Olympics must race for 4, 5 or 6 days.
Each regatta lasts between 15 and 50 minutes depending on the type of boat. In the case of dinghies, skiffs and catamarans (470, ILCA, Nacra 17, 49er and 49er FX) athletes are awarded points equal to their placing in their respective races.
The first is awarded one point, the second two points, and so on.
At the end of the first 4-5 days of racing, the games are “almost done.”
The top 10 ranked crews participate in the very final, called the Medal Race.
Here the rules change, because the points won are worth double: the first gets 2 points, the second 4, and so on.
If you get to the Medal Race with the “short” ranking, this last round is decisive.
In the end, the podium is composed of the athletes/crew with the lowest total number of points. The racing format is different for iQFOil boards and Formula Kite.
In the boards, there are four days of competition and the spots will be different from day to day.
Athletes must alternate between conventional courses, slalom and endurance trials.
In the latter, the points won count double.
The final day is decisive and very intense.
The quarterfinals are reserved for athletes so far ranked from fourth to tenth.
The top two from this “playoff” are selected for the semifinals, which are played in a four-way tie, along with the second and third overall.
The very final is between the top two finishers of the semifinal and the leader of the overall ranking.
The podium is already known before going into the water, only the color of each athlete’s medal to be determined. On the Kites, on the other hand, after four days of racing, the top 10 qualify for the Medal Race.
From then on, only the third through 10th place finishers race in the first phase of the Medal.
The top two from this phase then join the first and second overall for the final four.
In the final, each individual race win is worth one point.
The first to reach 3 points wins the gold medal.