Der Kampf auf den letzten Metern hat leider nicht für den Sieg gereicht. Trotzdem habe ich mich für den Saisoneinstieg gut geschlagen und fahre mit dem dritten Platz über 600m nach Hause. Glückwunsch an Christina Hering und Selina Büchel!
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Update from the laser worlds 2016

The first 8 of 14 races are done and with that, the qualifying series ended. Tomorrow goldfleet racing starts, with all the good guys in on fleet.

What happened so far?
We saw some nice conditions with a moderate sea breaze usually building up to beautiful hiking winds. I had some solid results and few more difficult ones.
In race two I had to do 4 penalty turns to finish only in 12th. Two of those turns were because of a correct jury decision "pumping downwind".
In race three then I was badly fouled by a sailor to leeward of me just before the start, which ruined my start anyway. Then the jury decided go give me a second yellow flag penalty on top of that. "Sculling below close-hauled" is a call that I will never accept, because simply every sailor does it in every race and I was f***** anyway. This jury decision is by far the worst I got in my life. So I had to retire from the race (RET).
In race eight I was again at the wrong place to the wrong time, as Alp Rona Rodopman destroyed my start by crushing into my mainsheet on port about 20 seconds before the gun. Guy, I at least had expected a "sorry" from you! Although I cleared the situation in seconds I couldn't make it to the line in time.

Considering how much went wrong so far, quite a lot was going well and I am still in the game. Currently 9th overall, as you can see in the results here:
www.laserworlds2016.org

I'd like to point out two sailors, that did extremly well so far. Well done Nick Thompson and Wannes Van Laer ;-).

Check the results every now and then (morning german time).

Buhli
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