Women's Laser Radial Sailing Final Full Replay - London 2012 Olympics
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2012
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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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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
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.
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.
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🤷♂️
Welcome to my life, went to a World and a European Championship and was best of my Nation both times. Guess who got the sports Trophy of my school? A Soccer Player whose Team placed third in the Regional League...
@@rimabotulinumb9096
Same here! My school was all soccer and hockey here. I couldn't even get a few days of for an international training because it wasn't "nessecary". While soccer players got whole days of for something as stupid as a meeting.
@@elien1902 get your hiking bench out and see how long the 'sportsmen' can hike for...
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?
She was pointing high to reduce the power as she was a lighter sailor. Sailed slower but gained more height and therefore good for her vmg.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Xu Lijia!
I bought Sari Multalas (FIN) lower mast in 2011. Still works great for my purposes!
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
8:04: Current objective: survive (for the commentator)
the "chinese girl" is leading the race but the commentators barely say her name, it's incredible!
The winner is literally my relative xD
just isn’t true though is it
@@charliepower935 it's possible lol
@@charliepower935technically we’re all relatives
I can't wait to watch my favorite sailor (Xu Lijia) Win at #Rio2016!!
The winner is literally my relative xD She couldn't go to 2016 because of an injury feels bad
it seems that the finland team always start at the pin
My guess for the Rio 2016 podium:
1 Van Acker
2 Bouwmeester
3 Young
almost
Samma ha f u Ireland for life
Any guess on how many knots the wind was in this race?
15-20 knots (force 4) ? Just a guess
I heard them saying it was 12-14 kts
Really bad camera work haha. I wanted to see how they all contest the buoys and they zoom in on 1 sailor??!
Kizo
Annaluise Murphy is my cousin that’s the only reason why I’m watching this
How do they know which buoy to take at the bottom mark?
Will be written in the race day Sailing instructions. You must memorise The course.
They have their choice of either mark.
It's a gate. They go through the middle and can choose which of the marks either side to round
@@alisonaussie4995 Not according to the other 2 replies ;) which say it's the skipper's choice.
@@jimbrownza if that's the case, it'll be in the sailing instructions.
Chine yes3
頭を打つのもヤバい
Кому не понравилось?
and people think rugby is a hard sport -_-
IT STILL IS
Rugby is hard but in a different way
Rugby pushes your body to the max but in sailing regattas you lose your mind and start breaking down.
@@louisclarke8315 look and offshore sailing and you will know sailing is the hardest sport in the world
Should be in Europe Dinghy's 🦦🚬🐿🍻
Why is the commentator talking so much about weight?
Try sailing a Laser radial at 60kg against 72kg sailors....
"the chinese girl"
exactly!
skill beats fats
China China China China China China China China China China China China China
The winner is literally my relative xD
Xu is the swan, and makes the others look like fat geese sailing. Sorry! She looks so beautiful and natural
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.
She was past the bottom mark at that point after which there is a short reach leg to the finish.
These announcers accents are annoying as hell.
No they aren't
These announcers are the worst. They keep saying 'Chinese girl', 'Irish girl', etc. You could try to remember their names and if not, just call them by their countries or call them sailors. They're clearly not girls. This is from 2012, not 1955.