Olympic Sailing: Who stole Scheidt's camera?

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Who stole Scheidt's camera?

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Topic: Who stole Scheidt's camera?

Posted By: laser4000
Subject: Who stole Scheidt's camera?
Date Posted: 29 Jul 12 at 4:53pm

good to see that simmonds is on the pace as usual with his commentary (not!)... was it just me that noticed that scheidt's camera must have fallen off the back 1/2 way round the course, certainly wasn't there on the final downwind...

Wonder what the rule is on that - wonder if it got tagged on one of the P&S crosses...

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Posted By: I luv Wight
Date Posted: 29 Jul 12 at 5:14pm

or when they hit the pin end start boat ?

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Posted By: laser4000
Date Posted: 29 Jul 12 at 8:08pm

Originally posted by I luv Wight

or when they hit the pin end start boat ?

Nope I guess it got wiped out when they did the final gybe, was still on further back on the run...

Not shown on the footage as they'd cut to someone waving the flag on the nothe..

Posted By: tgruitt
Date Posted: 29 Jul 12 at 8:40pm

Loads of them fell off!

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Posted By: Roger
Date Posted: 29 Jul 12 at 10:44pm

TV didn't show any shots from the STAR stern cameras, but there were a few from the Finn, so maybe they were have a few other problems as well as falling off.

Posted By: Roger
Date Posted: 31 Jul 12 at 10:08am

Telegraph has reported that only one or two boats in each fleet have "real" cameras onboard, the rest have dummy, same weight, casings.

They also report the cameras are £5,000 each so lets hope the real ones don't fall off.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/sailing/9436126/London-2012-Olympics-sailing-hit-by-controversy-as-on-board-cameras-and-rules-inconsistencies-cause-tensions.html - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/sailing/9436126/London-2012-Olympics-sailing-hit-by-controversy-as-on-board-cameras-and-rules-inconsistencies-cause-tensions.html

Posted By: ASok
Date Posted: 31 Jul 12 at 10:58am

Interesting report that, especially the last paragraph -

Race boats and coach boats going outside the competition area are regarded as ‘contaminated’ and have to be ‘cleaned’ by the military before they can re-enter the competition arena. This can take up to 24 hours which would have ruled Railey out of the first Finn race today, had he been found guilty.

Whats that about then?

Edit to highlight the article quote

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Posted By: chrishampe
Date Posted: 02 Aug 12 at 10:47pm

Over-crazed security concerns no doubt

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