Olympic Adventures: Delinquency

I apologize. Wow... only a few days left and I haven't really posted since the racing started. Today is the medal race for the 49ers. Unfortunately our guys did not make the medal race. Only top 10 race. They guys were 15th with many up and down days. The Finn medal race was a few days ago and unfortunately Zach Railey, silver medalist from Beijing, did not make the medal race. The worst regatta of the last 4 years. Pretty heart breaking to watch. Ben Ainslie, Brit, won his 3rd gold medal in this class and his 6 medal in sailing. It came down to the medal race and was between he and a Danish sailor. The RS:Xs (windsurfers) had their medal races yesterday... no medals there which was expected as that's not our strength or focus.The Star class (the big boys) raced their meal race a few days ago as well. Our American pair was in that race but mathematically no chance to medal. Our guys had finished 3rd at Worlds last year so had high expectations coming in so that was definitely a bummer. Paige Railey, Laser Radial sailor, raced in the medal race but again with no mathematical chance of medalling. So some definite disappointments here. Yesterday was the 5th day of racing for the 470 men who had a great day finishing 4th and 7th but not enough to secure them a top 10 overall for the medal race tomorrow. The 470 women have their 5th race today which will confirm a spot in the medal race. Knock on wood, that should happen. That race would be Friday. Which leaves our Women Match Racers... our greatest opportunity for a medal as they are the favorites. Yesterday started the quarter finals and they faced off against the Finnish Team that is actually their training partners. Our Americans are down 0-2 with 3 races to go. It's best out of 5 so they win all 3 races today otherwise they are out which would be heartbreaking. We shall see.

In the meanwhile... we continue to have fun...