Sailing

Good to see the sailing for a change, used to get 5 mins on the highlights show. The Dane looks the business.

Ainslie really struggling now

Bad day, can disregard the 12th but can't afford another poor placing

Constantly chasing every race, slipping away from Ainslie

What's stopped this Ainslie era of Olympic domination Don?    Is it bad weather, better sailors  or mistakes?

I am in the positio where, after a massive messe up bet (had ainslee bet open playing with odds, opened new page to make a seperate bet on another sport and it submitted both), that i hope he loses :/

Bit of all 3. Conditions not ideal, the Dane is sailing a blinder and Ainslie has started to force it as a result

know nothing about sailing but you'd think knowledge of home conditions prevailing winds etc would be massive in this sport

Ainslie is Hogh's bitch

Can still recover, double points in last race

Ainslie leading and Dane just capsized

Fascinating race I suspect with Ainslie ahead of the Dane for the first time except the BBC have shown the 470 tailenders then the crowd on the shore then 470 highlights then the crowd again. What a **** up.

There's 24 channels, of which only about 10 are in use atm, surely we can get 2 different sailing ones on

Ainslie won though and Hogh 8th which opens things up a bit

ainslie went ahead in the betting slightly, I am tempted to lay him now

Gap down to 3, top effort after getting a penalty.  If he can get 2 points back tomorrow then it's a shootout on Sunday

Is the star pretty much wrapped up would you say?

Looking very good but there is an 11th on the card which is currently discarded, if they had a bad race tomorrow then it could knock us back a bit.  And then the medal race is double points so not all over

Here we go.  Ainslie fuming last night, sounds like the Danish sailor may have bull****

Ainslie 4 back now but salvaged hopes on that last leg

What a sail that was, all down to the medal race now, should be a great battle

Yea amazing skills. We know Ainslie can finish these, Dane under pressure

does ben just need to beat him to win? tia

Yes

Yep, assuming they don't come near the back and the Dutch guy wins

thanks guys

Here we go

How long will the race last lads,gonna watch the Tennis and flick over near finish.

The Dane has beaten him 7 out of 10 so far ,fair play to him if he manages to win.

Looking good so far but so did the Star class.

The British commentators seem so blinkered to assume GB are always going to win.

Knowing our luck Ben will hit an iceberg and sink.

Thought all the Icebergs had melted nowdays.

Yeh wykhamist, I like the comms but they're hugely biased

Well maybe an unexploded WW2 mine then

Yep the great dane laid a couple last night

Close but should be able to shut him out from here

Why go for the head to head when earlier he was well ahead of the Dane ?

I don't like the way this is going much now. The Dane is catching up.

On a lighter note, there are some cracking birds in this sailing, BBC Shirley Robinson in particular

Fascinating tactics ,I think I'm starting to understand it.

I have not got a clue what is going on

err?

phew Ben tacked ahead of the Dane so will round the mark first.

Uh oh watch the Dutch

BOOOOOM

Great stuff! Well done Ben.

Never in doubt.

very lucky....fell in

Hans Cristian Andersen, Little Mermaid, Danish Bacon, Michael Laudrup, Peter Schmeicel, your boy took a hell of a beating!!!!!!

I think the Dane is sailing straight back to Denmark

Superb effort to claw it back after the first few races

an

Any chance of a danish protest

phew

Sheer will to win got him though that. Hell of a performance.

Well done Ben.

Medal Ceremony will be interesting quiet satisfaction and immense smugness for ainsley

hardly did it in style....ninth in final race....got lucky, Dutch guy  v close to taking 2nd before last buoy

9th because he was occupied with the Danish and they had an unfavourable wind shift, maximises his chances to win

preoccupied with the Dane, i'd say....the 2 lads earlier made the same mistake and paid dearly

Big Ben

Postma was never 2nd at a mark, he could have changed his tactics if he was sailing away with it, it was essential to cover the Dane

Well done Ben. Also congrats to the Swedes in the star. Percy and Simpson did a great job spoiling the Brazilian but were a bit thick with the maths.

Incredible comeback by Ainslie.

What was his highest price to win the Gold?

He went 3.0 for hundreds and maybe a bit higher, Dane hit 1.2/3

lovely to see my old stamping ground
poole and weymouth are really good places to visit etc  always been a big favourite of mine
and superb places to sail   
inside the breakwater is excellent at portland on the safety side of things
but dont go to the RACES outside on the point!!! - portland bill!!!!
been through it a few times - rather exciting!!!

but do visit the area

Pretty much the only mistake the Dane made was capsizing, even when he had penalty turns in one of the early races he still won easily.  Ainslie's experience won him it, the Dane should have been the one shutting Ainslie out in the final few races but it was Ainslie doing it to him

Cheers Don mate.

Ugly scenes at Wimbledon meanwhile.

Where's the rain and the roof

Match will be all over by the time it arrives