Pre-Game Show - Men's 470 - What they said

The top three have a medal confirmed in the Men’s 470 but the colour is to be decided,

Catch a glimpse of what the sailors are thinking ahead of racing and check out the line up below:

Mat Belcher and Will Ryan – Australia
 
It’s been a really challenging week for us. We said very early on that we wanted to be in a position to fight for gold and we’re in that position and looking forward to the challenge.
 
It’s amazing [to fight for a medal]. I’ve been sailing the 470 almost for nine years now with the goal to come to the Olympics and to fight for a gold medal on the last day. I couldn’t ask for more than that and when you look back at it it’s been an amazing experience. It’s been a roller coaster journey this week but that’s part of the game. We’re in a great position to go out and give it everything and we’ll see how it plays out.
 
The Games are about setting your top performance. They [Croatia] came here having won the world championships at the beginning of the year and obviously they’re ranked world #1 and we’re world #2. We knew they were going to come out firing. We are really proud of our performance this week. That’s all we can really control and we expect it to be a battle. You don’t get given it, you’ve got to earn it and the challenges that we’ve had this week we’ve overcome a lot of things and we’re proud to be in this position.
 
Stu McNay and Dave Hughes – USA
 
We’re always excited for Medal Racing. It’s a wonderful part of our sport. Ten boats of high calibre battling against each other always makes for wonderful racing. It’s mathematically impossible for us to go above fourth but our goal is to race our best race and leave the Olympics with good feelings.

Find information below on how to follow the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition.

RESULTS / ENTRIES
A full list of sailors racing at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is available to view here – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/qualification/sailors.php#.V6ZHvo6BLqM. Results are available here – https://www.rio2016.com/en/sailing-schedule-and-results

LIVE TRACKING
The racing will be available to watch in 2D and 3D via the live tracking. Live tracking will be available when racing commences via – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/multimedia/live_tracking.php

Live Tracking via the Sailviewer-3D Tablet App will be available for devices with 7″ or greater screens.

Click here to download the iOS Application – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sailviewer-3d/id912801278
Click here to download the Android Application – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stsportservice.sailviewer

COMPETITION STATUS
The Competition Status Screen feeds in straight from the Race Committee boats with the teams inputting data such as race times, course type, the status of each race and the plan moving forward. The competition status screen will be available when racing commences via – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/multimedia/live_tracking.php

LIVE BLOGGING
Sailing journalist Craig Leweck will be following the racing LIVE on World Sailing’s Olympic Blog throughout Rio 2016. Follow LIVE here – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/multimedia/live_blog.php#.V6dUbY6BLqM

PRESS RELEASES
World Sailing will be releasing international press releases after racing throughout the duration of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. All the latest news and reports will be available to read here – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/news/index.php

TELEVISION
To find out who your Olympic broadcaster is, click here – https://www.olympic.org/rio-2016/broadcasters. The following link – http://go.olympic.org/WS – will redirect you to the Rights Holding Broadcaster in your country.

SOCIAL MEDIA
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USEFUL LINKS
World Sailing Olympic Website – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/home.php
Competition Schedule – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/about/schedule.php
Latest Olympic Sailing news – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/news/index.php
Online Notice Board – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/results/notices/notices.php
Social Wall – http://www.sailing.org/olympics/rio2016/multimedia/social_wall.php#.V6ZteY6BLqM