Olympic Windsurfing
The windsurfing competition of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games is drawing to a close, with the medal race to be run on Tueday, August 7. In the men’s fleet, Dorian Van Rijsselberge has locked up the gold medal even before the medal race! His commanding lead makes it mathematically impossilbe to lose his first place position. In the women’s fleet, Marina Alabau is currently in first, but the medals are still undecided. If you are a subscriber to almost any cable or sattelite tv service here in the US, you can watch the medal race live! Check out http://www.nbcolympics.com/sailing/index.html to watch the race live, or to watch any of the races of the event that have already taken place. The men’s medal race is scheduled for 1:00pm and the women’s for 2pm (London time – which is 8am and 9am US East Coast Time) on Tuesday, August 7. Current results can be found at http://www.sailing.org/olympics/london2012/results_centre.php
Our US competitors, Bob Willis and Farrah Hall, did not qualify for the medal race. We are thrilled with their performances however and they both performed beyond expectations for their first Olympic regatta. You can read about their experiences at the Olympics at www.bobsails.com and www.farrahhall.com .
Lots of great articles and videos have been written and created about this year’s Olympic Windsurfing event, here are links to just a few:
http://www.redeyechicago.com/sports/ct-red-0727-bobwillis-20120726,0,2721315.story
http://www.redeyechicago.com/sports/ct-red-0727-bob-willis-blog-20120726,0,3342282.story