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    Posted: 18 Aug 08 at 7:56pm

Originally posted by Lukepiewalker

And I'm not sure you can say ben had an equipment advantage either...

Equipment advantage was probably the wrong thing to say, what I meant was Ben would have developed the rig to suit his sailing style and had a choice of boat to take, which would have contributed in an admittedly small way to his success, compared to the Lasers which cannot do any rig or boat development as part of their campaign
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And I'm not sure you can say ben had an equipment advantage either...
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Originally posted by Jamie600

I wonder why Paul isn't getting much coverage

No doubt he will when he collects his third gold ... in 2016 ...

Ben's history of success and continued dominace is what make him newsworthy.
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Originally posted by Jamie600

To my mind Paul's result is more impressive as there is no equipment advantage and he has managed to claw back from 8th at the start of the week to the 18 point lead he has now

I agree, especially to have a couple of wins from a 43 boat fleet.
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I wonder why Paul isn't getting much coverage despite the fact he is actually more likely to get gold than Ben was going into the medal race. To my mind Paul's result is more impressive as there is no equipment advantage and he has managed to claw back from 8th at the start of the week to the 18 point lead he has now
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I think Paul has to just not be last tomorrow to take the Gold - Not a bad weeks work if you ask me
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Originally posted by DiscoBall

Yep steady as she goes...  Goodison has built up a commanding lead in a Ben stylee with very little comment from the sailing or national press.  Good luck to him for tomorrow - must be very satisfying after Athens.


Yeah but it's only as of now.. that he's had that lead - go back to the end of yesterday's racing at it wasn't so crystal clear.  I texted the facts to the Beeb @ 09:27 and it got a good write up on their olympic ticker @ 09:37
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Yep steady as she goes...  Goodison has built up a commanding lead in a Ben stylee with very little comment from the sailing or national press.  Good luck to him for tomorrow - must be very satisfying after Athens.
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Yes Goodi just needs to avoid DSQ and then make sure the Swede doesn't win.

Will we see a repeat of Ben vs. Scheidt?

Shame Penny seems to have sailed herself out of contention...


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