OLYMPIC GAMES 2016 - Rio de Janeiro BRA - Start today !

Monday, August 8, 2016   
Today at 13h Rio time (17h UTC), the first Olympic races will be started. The Laser Standards and Radials and the RS:X male and female fleets will be the first with two races each on the program sailing on the infamous Guanabara Bay.
In the Lasers Standard, the list of potential winners is long. The World Champion Nick Thompson GBR, the Worldranking nbr 1 Tom Burton AUS, the Laser legend Robert Scheidt chasing his 6th Olympic Medal, but also Jean-Baptiste Bernaz FRA, Philipp Buhl GER, Tonci Stipanovic CRO or Pavlos Kontides CYP will have a say.
The top favorite in the Lasers Radial is Marit Bouwmeester NED, but the other two 2012 Olympic Medalists Evi Van Acker BEL and Lijia Xu CHN are again among the top cited favorites, not to forget the reigning World Champion Alice Young GBR, as well as Gintare Scheidt-Volungeviciute LTU or Mathilde de Kerengeat FRA.
Lilian de Geus NED, Bryony Shaw GBR, Charline Picon FRA nd Malgorzata Bialecka POL in the RS:X women and the defending Olympic Champion Dorian Van Rijsselberghe NED, Piotr Myszka POL, Thomas Guyard FRA, Nick Dempsey GBR and Byron Kokkalanis GRE in the RS:X men will be the key players in the windsurfer fleets.
The entry lists. Moderate winds between 9 and 12 kn have been forecast. The event website.
We shall cover the competition live on these pages. Stay tuned !
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OLYMPIC GAMES 2016 - Rio de Janeiro BRA

Monday, 8. August 2016– Thursday, 18. August 2016

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