Friday thoughts.

Originally posted by laserboy404

Originally posted by laserboy404

In fairness to simmonds, he has to think of something to say about pictures he is being shown by camera crews who don't seem to have a clue about sailing or what part of the race we want to see, as well as trying to come up with something that the non sailing public can relate to. Sad as it is, we sailors are in the minority.
Besides that, what happened to Percy on the last leg, one moment he was 3rd and when I came back he was 7th 

I don't buy that excuse - some of the camera angles aren't great but this is still the best actual footage from the games yet.  More to the point - most competent dinghy sailors could find 10x more things to comment on in each shot than simmonds does.  I get the feeling he doesn't really sail too much himself and has spent so much time presenting the sport for non-sailors (as sailing seems obsessed with doing, to its detriment) that he doesn't really understand the technicalities.  In the medal race today there were a number of rule 42 penalties which went uncommented (despite being in full view of the cameras) and many many other commentatable (?) details.

Pity Chris Law is no longer around - His AC commentating was technical, dramatic and funny.