Olympic sailing On TV

The really frustrating thing is that there are cameras out there, but the use of the footage they capture is minimal & at times appears totally random and poorly edited, to say nothing of the rubbish commentary.

BBC is providing a daily summary via the Red Button, BBC Sport App or iPlayer.

Yesterday's can be found here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/…/p04…/olympic-sailing-summary-thursday

The IOC have paid for bottom tier coverage, which means they can basically only cover the closer courses to the beach. Massive shame as the outside courses have been epic. Talking to the guys out there it has been full on with some gigga waves!

Getting mightily p****d off with the bum dribble TV coverage of Olympic sailing that's been provided up till now.

Far too much of this type of frustrating snakes & ladders rubbish in flukey, patchy wind;


Whilst elsewhere in Rio there's lots of genuinely exciting and challenging racing going on;


No wonder participation in sailing is at an all time low, talk about missed opportunity...........

Only if you agree that should you fail to beat her off the line you have to wear a mankini for the rest of your sailing career.

Originally posted by iGRF Well I managed to red button into the ladies radial and watched our two blunder out of the start line like rank amateurs, don't they teach big fleet start line technique to girlies, honestly all that way to get your self third rank boxed out of the committee boat end, who does that? It is the most boring TV long waits of crowd viewing, camera operated by some retarded zoom monkey. I almost gave up waiting, nobody bar nobody but an enthusiast sailor would wait for that. The RSX's were racing Nick dempsey had a couple of bullets and was leading the third, did we get any coverage? No, they focussed on girlie Briony who also made the most appalling start ever and tanked as a result. So tonight 5 pm we're promised Giles the Finn man who I'm told is a racing certainty by one of the moronic commentators, that will have immediately jinxed the poor fellow so I'll not hold my breath of him getting away clean, there was a fair bit of tide running I do so hope he knows his tidal stuff, the complete incompetences that were going on in the Laser fleet illustrated a lack of it earlier, do they teach it in dinghy school I wonder, they certainly don't to seem to teach any other basic tactical stuff.