Saturday was a rest day and Nick Dempsey’s well timed birthday – ahead of the medal race today, the RYA preview the finale – ” Nick Dempsey goes into tomorrow’s RS:X Men’s Medal Race knowing he has Rio 2016 silver in the bag.
But there will be no Tour de France Champs-Élysées-style victory parade taking place on Guanabara Bay as, under the rules of competition Sailing Instructions, both he and gold medallist in waiting, Dorian Van Rijsselberghe (NED), must sail a competitive race to not risk being demoted to 10th in the fleet.
There is no danger of Dempsey, who is celebrating his 36th birthday today (Saturday), taking his foot of the pedal as he will be desperate to end what is set to be his last ever RS:X race on a career high of winning the medal race at his final Games.
Dempsey wrapped up silver after Friday’s results dictated that he couldn’t lose the silver medal but also could not catch the Dutchman for gold. But with the battle for bronze still very much on, the race is guaranteed to be as competitive as ever.
Bryony Shaw also contests her RS:X Women’s Medal Race tomorrow, and still has an outside chance of a medal if everything goes in her favour. Shaw currently lies in eighth overall, 11 points behind Peina Chen (CHN) in bronze medal position.
With every position counting double in the Medal Race the perfect outcomes could still see Shaw replicate her podium success of Beijing 2008. But a lot of sailors also currently sit ahead of her so she would have to win the race and cross her fingers.
The RS:X Men’s Medal Race is scheduled to be live from the Pão de Açucar (Sugarloaf) course on the BBC from 5pm with the Women’s race scheduled for 6pm.
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Times (Rio Time) for the final races today are 1300 start for the Men and 1400 start for the Women
Find information below on how to follow the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition.
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RESULTS / ENTRIES
A full list of sailors racing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is available to view here –http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/qualification/sailors.php#.V6ZHvo6BLqM. Results will be available on World Sailing’s Olympic Website when racing starts on Monday 8 August here –http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/results/index.php#.V6ZH_Y6BLqM
LIVE TRACKING
The racing will be available to watch in 2D and 3D via the live tracking. Live tracking will be available when racing commences via – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/multimedia/live_tracking.php
Live Tracking via the Sailviewer-3D Tablet App will be available for devices with 7″ or greater screens.
Click here to download the iOS Application – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sailviewer-3d/id912801278
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COMPETITION STATUS
The Competition Status Screen feeds in straight from the Race Committee boats with the teams inputting data such as race times, course type, the status of each race and the plan moving forward. The competition status screen will be available when racing commences via –http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/multimedia/live_tracking.php
LIVE BLOGGING
Sailing journalist Craig Leweck will be following the racing LIVE on World Sailing’s Olympic Blog throughout Rio 2016. Follow LIVE here – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/multimedia/live_blog.php#.V6dUbY6BLqM
PRESS RELEASES
World Sailing will be releasing international press releases after racing throughout the duration of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. All the latest news and reports will be available to read here –http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/news/index.php
TELEVISION
To find out who your Olympic broadcaster is, click here – https://www.olympic.org/rio-2016/broadcasters. The following link – http://go.olympic.org/WS – will redirect you to the Rights Holding Broadcaster in your country.
SOCIAL MEDIA
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RS:X SOCIAL MEDIA
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USEFUL LINKS
World Sailing Olympic Website – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/home.php
Competition Schedule – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/about/schedule.php
Latest Olympic Sailing news – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/news/index.php
Online Notice Board – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/results/notices/notices.php
Social Wall – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/multimedia/social_wall.php#.V6ZteY6BLqM