Officials abandon men’s sailing medal race due to lack of wind: ‘Never seen anything like it’


An absence of wind triggered the lads’s skiff last race to be deserted on Thursday on the 2024 Paris Olympics

Officers determined there was not a enough quantity of wind to finish the race, which had already begun, per Reuters.

The ten-boat, double-points race noticed Spain out within the early lead in a ship manned by Diego Botin and Florian Trittel, however the wind that they had been driving stopped, they usually started to fall again on leg two of the race. 

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The boys’s skiff race prepares to get underway on day three of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Marseille Marina on July 29, 2024 in Marseille, France. (Alex Livesey/Getty Photographs)

That was when officers determined to desert the race. 

In accordance with the Daily Mail, BBC commentators for the race mentioned they’ve “by no means seen something prefer it.”

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Spain had the bottom rating at abandonment, however that decides the winner in crusing. 

As of now, there isn’t a phrase on when the lads’s skiff last is ready to happen. 

USA sailboat in water

Ian Barrows and Hans Henken of Group United States of America, Bart Lambriex and Isaac Van De Werken of Group Netherlands, Robert Dickson and Bart Waddilove of Group Eire and Diego Botin Le Chever and James Trittel Paul of Group Spain compete in the course of the Males’s Skiff Males’s Skiff 49er class Medal Race on day six of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Marseille Marina on Aug. 1, 2024 in Marseille, France. (Alex Livesey/Getty Photographs)

Whereas officers work out when that will likely be, they’ve already determined the ladies’s skiff last, which was set to happen after the lads’s competitors, must be postponed. 

As with the lads’s last, there was no time disclosed for that occasion. 

The Every day Mail added that race administrators are attempting to see if a distinct a part of the bay at Marseille Marina can present the best wind for the race restart. 

Olympic sailboats in water

Rivals take the beginning of the medal race of the lads’s 49er skiff occasion in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games crusing competitors on the Roucas-Blanc Marina in Marseille, France, on Aug. 1, 2024. (NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP through Getty Photographs)

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For the lads’s race, the United States had Ian Barrows at helm and Hans Henken at crew. 

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