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Upcoming winds allow to catch up with the schedule
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| Laser Radial Youth World Championship - Upcoming winds allow to catch up with the schedule |
| RIVA DEL GARDA, ITALY-(7-8-2003) The local winds worked liked a clock today, enabling the race committee to catch up on all but one race for all fleets so that the total fleet can be split into gold, silver, bronze and emerald for four `finals` races over the next two days. A 14-knot southerly wind gave a one good race for all fleets starting at 8.30 am and an extra race for two fleets. The southerly started to fade around 11 am and vanished completely soon after causing the red fleet race to be abandoned. Within 30 minutes the wind had switched to a northerly and an hour later the course had been re-set for the new wind, no easy feat in 300 metre deep water!
The red fleet were restarted in 12 knots of wind that held for six more fleet races.
Tonko Kuzmanic CRO held on to his overall lead with two more first places and a tenth, which he can now discard. Likewise Keir Clarke from Great Britain scored two bullets in his races to keep second overall, but also scored an OCS for a premature start.
This may prove costly in the final races as Kuzmanic might still want to use his tenth place. Following these two, places have changed significantly following the introduction of the discard.
Although still hot, the humidity levels have dropped slightly and the locals are more confident of the Ora wind once again establishing itself early tomorrow.
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Source: Event Editor |
