Paralympic results- disappointing?

   I'm pretty sure they will be asking themselves the same questions - I am sure they will feel they underperformed, especially in the light of the Olympic results.  Hopefully there will be a thorough debriefing and lessons learned, but I also hope that they do not get disheartened; the end of an Olympic campaign must leave enough of an empty feeling once the euphoria has died down, never mind how it must feel if you have not lived up to expectations.

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winging it Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 22 Mar 07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3958	Post Options Post Reply Quote winging it Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Paralympic results- disappointing? Posted: 15 Sep 08 at 12:13pm
	I'm pretty sure they will be asking themselves the same questions - I am sure they will feel they underperformed, especially in the light of the Olympic results. Hopefully there will be a thorough debriefing and lessons learned, but I also hope that they do not get disheartened; the end of an Olympic campaign must leave enough of an empty feeling once the euphoria has died down, never mind how it must feel if you have not lived up to expectations.
	the same, but different...

radixon Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 27 Oct 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2407	Post Options Post Reply Quote radixon Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 14 Sep 08 at 7:01pm
	I think the conditions in China were totally different with the waves/lack of wind etc. I think they all did well to compete and get where they were positioned. Its difficult to always be at the top and I am sure they were under pressure anyway, even more so by the other Olympic Sailors gaining gold.

nathan Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Posting king Joined: 26 Apr 04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 143	Post Options Post Reply Quote nathan Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 14 Sep 08 at 4:43pm
	Paralympic results: 2.4m GBR 7th/ 16 Sonar GBR 6th/ 12 SKUD GBR 5th/ 11 Were these results expected or should they have been better? In my opinion they should have been better. Results were better before the Games. The 2.4m is regularly a high performer. The Sonar have had lots of good results, and the SKUDs won gold at the Paralympics. They recieve similar funding to our able-bodied sailors, whereas other nationas do not recieve the same as able-bodied programmes. Indeed, some of the competition are not even full time sailors. Further, compared to able bodied events the fleet sizes are small with a maximum of 16, with only 11 in the SKUD. The SKUD team are new, however the Sonar team went to Athens 2004, as I believe did Lucas in the 2.4. What went wrong? Why did they underperform- sharing the infastructure as part of Team GBR would insure met info etc was up to speed...