Sailing Olympics, Tita-Banti “human,” Benini and Chiavarini in Medal Race

Day number 10 of racing at the Marseille Sailing Olympics. There was one major absentee.

Sailing Olympics, what happened today

The wind, in some classes too light to allow the scheduled tests to take place.

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News: Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti are “human”

Let’s start with the mixed catamaran Nacra 17.
Today the “extraterrestrials” Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti came down to earth.

There are only three races separating Ruggero (class of 1992 from Rovereto) and Caterina (37 years old, from Rome) from the closing of the “series”: in fact, races 10,11 and 12 are scheduled tomorrow.
Then, the day after tomorrow, it will be Medal Race: the final of the top 10 where placings are worth double.
Tomorrow the weather forecast is for weak winds (around 5-6 knots from the south-southwest).
Tita-Banti will have to grit their teeth to enter the medal race with the largest possible margin over their opponents.

ILCA 6 – Chiara Benini in Medal Race.
Now a miracle is needed

Let’s move on to the ILCA 6 class, women’s dinghy.
Only one race characterized by little wind could be held today.
After nine races, we go to the medal race and the good news is that our Chiara Benini Floriani, at her first Olympics, is there.
In fact, the Italian finished the “series” in seventh position with the partials of 3-7-25-10-18-10-11-5-38 and qualified for the top ten final where the placings are worth double. Chiara Benini Floriani faces the medal race starting from the seventh positionPity[/], really, for today’s slip, that cursed thirty-eighth that distances her, and not by little, from the chances of winning a medal.
Chiara can only aim for bronze, currently held by Norway’s Line Flem Hoest, which, however, is a good 18 lengths away. Only if the Italian were to win the Medal Race and Hoest were to finish tenth, plus other concatenations of placings by opponents in fourth, fifth and sixth places, could the “miracle” happen.
As always, forbidden not to hope. Meanwhile, we just have to congratulate 36-year-old Dutchwoman Marit Bouwmeester (Benini’s youth idol!), who has already mathematically won gold. Her second gold after Rio and her fourth Olympic medal (silver in London 2012 and bronze in Tokyo, as well as several world titles).
This makes her the strongest performer in the ILCA class (formerly Laser ever).
Masterful.

ILCA 7 – Chiavarini ninth.
Bravo Lorenzo!

Let’s move on to ILCA 7.
Again, the good news is that, having completed the eight trials of the series, Italy is in the medal race with our Lorenzo Brando Chiavarini, who finished in ninth place with the partials 25-21-4-6-17-27-5-19.
Too bad he lacked some consistency, because Lorenzo showed, when he had the chance, that he could stay in front. Lorenzo Brando Chiavarini, ninth, can still recover positions in the[/] medal race[/] The medal chances are gone, and the fight for the podium will be between Australia’s Matt Wearn (the favorite, first by 14 points), Cyprus’ Pavlos Kontides, Peru’s Stefano Peschiera and England’s Michael Beckett.
At best, our Lorenzo could take seventh place overall.
Unfortunately, math is not an opinion, but bravo to Lorenzo!

Men’s kitesurfing – Pianosi raised his head today!

Clear day for Riccardo Pianosi, defending the Italian colors in the men’s kitesurfing. He starts off poorly with a 14th-place finish, then rears his head and shoots a masterpiece first-place finish.

Women’s Kite – Maggie Pescetto on a bad day today

Unfortunately, a bad day for Maggie Pescetto, our women’s kite athlete, who dropped to eighth place.
After yesterday she was disqualified in test two (she finished seventh) perhaps she took a bit of a hit today. Maggie Pescetto in action in the Kite formula in Marseille[/] One tenth and one fourteenth her partials today, 5-DSQ-3-10-14 the totals.
We are halfway through the race, anything can still happen.
The format is the men’s kite format we told you about above: the important thing is to stay in the ten to play it all in the medal.
Go Maggie!

470 – Nothing done.

In the 470 class, nothing done due to too little wind.
All postponed until tomorrow: after six races, our Elena Berta and Bruno Festo remain in 14th position.
Objective medal race.

Olympics, what happens tomorrow in Marseille

Tomorrow Tuesday, Aug. 6, the men’s and women’s kites and the Nacra 17 (mixed catamaran) and 470 (mixed dinghy) take to the water again for the regular “series.”
Also scheduled are the ILCA 6 (former Laser Radial, women’s dinghy) and ILCA 7 (former Laser Standard, men’s dinghy) medal races.
The forecast is, again, for light winds.

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. edited by Eugenio Ruocco