Mixed progress in the sailing, with all classes now having at least one day/two races under their keels. Quick(ish)
rundown:
Mens 470 two-person dinghy - Aus. crew Mat Belcher/Will Ryan lead NZ crew Paul Snow-Hansen/Dan Willcox by one point, with Spanish crew Jordi Xammar/Nicolas Rodiguez Garcia-Paz in 3rd a further three points behind, after two races. Aussie crews have been very strong in this class for many years.
Womens 470 - Polish crew Agnieszka Skrzypulec/Jolanta Ogar lead French pair Camille Lecointre/Aloise Retornaz by three points, with British crew Hannah Mills/Eilidh McIntyre a further two points back. Australian crew Nia Jerwood/Monique de Vries sit in 9th, 18 points off the lead also after two races.
49er Men high-performance skiff - British crew Dylan Fletcher/Stuart Bethill lead Spanish duo Diego Botin Le Chever/Iago Lopez Marra by one point, with Aus crew Will & Sam Phillips another four points back, tied on points with NZ pair Peter Burling/Blair Tuke, but ahead on countback. Four races sailed.
49erFX Women (same hull as 49er, smaller rig for lighter crews) - UK team Charlotte Dobson/Saskia Tidey lead Dutch crew Annemiek Bekkering/Annette Duetz by five points, with Spanish crew Tamara Echegoyen Dominguez/Paula Barcelon Martin another two points back. Aus pair Tess Lloyd/Jaime Ryan are 12th, 33 points off the lead after four races.
Finn Mens Heavyweight solo - Turkey's Alican Kaynar leads on countback from Hungarian Zsombor Berecz, with Spaniard Juan Cardona Mendez only one point behind. Tight racing. Australian Jake Lilley sits 9th, a further 13 points behind after four races.
Mens Laser light(er)weight solo - Pavlos Kontides of Cyprus leads Aussie Matt Wearn by nine points, with Brazilian Robert Scheidt another six points back after six races.
Womens Laser Radial (like the 49erFX, a smaller rig on the Laser hull) - Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark leads Swede Josefin Olsson by 12 points, with Dutch sailor Marit Bouwmeester only one more point behind. Australian Mara Stransky is in 18th, 41 points off the podium. Also six races sailed.
Nacra 17 mixed-crew foiling catamaran - Ruggero Tita/Caterina Banti from Italy hold a four point lead over Paul Kohloff/Alica Stuhlemmer from Germany and Aussie crew Jason Waterhouse/Lisa Darmanin, although the Germans hold second on countback. The Brithish crew John Gimson/Anna Burnet in 4th are only one more point behind after three races. Nacra cat is the only Olympic class where men and women sail together, and on this stage, mixed crew is mandatory.
RS:X Sailboard Men - Dutch sailor Kiran Badloe leads Italian Mattia Camboni by eight points, with another five points to France's Tomas Goyard. In the Womens fleet, UK's Emma Wilson holds a single point lead over Yunxiu Lu of China, with Charline Picon of France two more points behind. Both RS:X fleets have completed nine races. Australia has no competitors in these classes.
PS: quick scoring explanation - sailing uses a "low point" system, with points scored equal to finish place in each race. DNF/DNS/DSQ results are one more than the number of competitors in the class. The bigger the fleet, the worse the score can get if one has a shit race! After four races have been sailed, each boat's worst result is discarded, unless the results are so tight that the bad ones need to be used in a countback, or a competitor has done something really naughty which warrants a non-discardable DSQ. After the main series is completed (up to 10 races for the Finn, 470 and Laser classes, 12 races for the 49ers, Nacra and RS:X) to top 10 go into a double-points medal race, which is then added to the Series result to determine the overall.
