Don’t Make Ben Ainslie Angry! 4 Times Ainslie Went Hulk Mode… 

Hi Eemeli, which Olympics was that? What part didn’t you understand? I’ll try to explain

2000 why ben only match raced that one guy?

@@eemelikorhonen7763 Ainslie was 9 points off Scheidt before the last race so to win Gold he would have to win the race (difficult to guarantee) and also Schedit would have to finish 9th (which was ever harder to guarantee). The safer option was to hassle Scheidt so he finished worse than 22nd. Of course doing so would mean Ainslie would likely finish 21st or worse but Ainslie could discard that result. Ainslie only had one bad result (20 or over). Schedidt had 2. There were only two discards so one more bad result from Schiedt and he's have to count a score above 20. Ainslie only had to count an 11 if he had a bad medal race result. Schedit had to count a 22nd if he had a bad medal race. That's 11 points Ainslie could gain on Schiedt if he match raced him

@@FastForwardSailing Thanks for that explanation!

@@bf2fsxcod4412 Pleasure!

He is disliked but they all respect him.

That’s a terrible quote. What matter is you win and don’t break the rules. Nothing else matters

@@adamatch9624 The fact that youngsters have now become agressive on the water is thanks to Ainslie and the like sailing their boats in match racing and ramming others intentionally instead of manoeuvering to avoid and THEN protesting and letting the judges rule. They take things into their own hands and slam each other to prove that their are right. It's wrong. Sorry.

Paul Elvstrøm invented the kicking strap, but would hide it from his competitors and only attach it once on the water so they couldnt get a close look at it. I think thats a bit less honourable than match racing your competitor...

When you have JP Asset Mgmt and a few lawyers with deep pockets ...

Because you have club racing officials who don't know the rules and judge on feelings.

Well they are RYA qualified inc some who do international events. Someone I worked with was in the same club as Ainslie. And even 20 years ago he was apparently a big headed @@@@@.

@@mini696 no. because people dont want to put there boats expensive on the line

That's why these guys do it. It's disgraceful the way they all sail and ram each other in match racing instead of avoiding the opponent and putting in a protest for the judges to rule on. I was a judge for junior regattas and I black flagged ANY boat that hit another if it was obvious that they were trying to press home a point that THEY had priority BUT that by steering correctly they could have avoided a collision. 00:30 - Ainslie could easily have steered to port to avoid the collision and he knew it. He is aware of the boats speed and size and these are two identical yachts. I would have disqualified the idjut. He's a good sailor, as are many of the others, but also every bit of a spoiled brat.

Then dont watch rugby. it will make your hurty feelings even worse.

So you’re mad that he followed the rules and won?

You don’t understand the sport. Everything he did was exemplary.

I agree, while being tactical at this level requires skill, bullying a competitor for more than 10 minuets, preventing him to even round the first mark while the entire field had done so more than 10-15 minutes previous and being forced into a penalty that resulted in your disqualification from the final Olympic race that you trained hard for and performed well enough to make it too by someone who had a loop hole to through away a bad race in the final is gut retching.

This behavior is only praised by the fans of this guy, i.e.: the people who not being great sailors still hope they can win by exploiting race rules in creative ways that have nothing to do with the spirit of the sport. What is clear is everyone would stop being interested in regatta sailing if the winners were just better at annoying the competition than at actually sailing.

@@svfixerup that bullying requires an elite level of boat control, reading winds, distances and your opponent's next move. Very much more so than the level required to just win a race like that. If his opponent was a better sailor, he had dozens of opportunities to outsail him and finish ahead of him. He was not and ended up ramming Ainslie in frustration and forfeiting his race. The better sailor won the gold. Better sailor does not mean better man, but Olympic races are not about who the better man is.

​@@pero2727 You're right. Ainsley won the race according to the rules, but his general behaviour doesn't make him worth lauding. Newton was a genius but an awful person. Sure, Ben earnt the gold as he had lost it on prior occasions. Placing him on a metaphorical pedestal as a role model is, however, is of questionable merit.

What a terrible way to win a race. It says everything about the character of the man.

I reckon Scheidt was in the wrong as although he was on starboard at the time of contact he gybed straight into Ainslie giving him no time an opportunity to keep clear. If I was sailing next to you on a downwind and we were both on port I couldn't gybe straight onto starboard and expect you to get out of the way in 1 second. You can see Ainslie steers to avoid very quickly.

I have to say, Ainsley did a great job of showing that winning by any means doesn’t make you the better man, just the one that wasn’t good enough to win any other way.

@@jfmrod in other words, what a bad loser he is. Shame on you, Ben.

Maneuvering boat keep clear. Scheidt did not finish his gybe before Ainslie had to avoid.

@@michelamizzi9786 Sure, Ainslie may have been strictly following the rules. Usually when rules are abused in a way that goes against the objective of the sport (to be the fastest sailor to complete a circuit), they need to be fixed (as I am sure it has happened many times before). In this case it is easy to argue that Scheidt did not expect Ainslie to turn into him since the mark was not downwind. If there is no rule about it being forbidden to hinder another even when you are going the complete opposite direction to the circuit, one should definitely be created. Unless you are trying to argue that this style of "winning" is what you would like to see in the future, in which case I suggest there should be different sets of sailing rules because I can't imagine many people find such type of sailing inspiring... except like I said, the ones that can't win by sailing alone and need to find other ways to win...

They all use lawyers and it is because a huge amount of money is at stake.

Still went home with a load of money.....

Lost sailing for his own country. I wouldn't throw stones if I were you given the Australian Skipper you had 🤔

Certainly adds to the drama!

In reality this muppet has beaten the best skippers who are just good.

He is the best laser sailor. What he did wasn’t dangerous and the fact you think it is shows you don’t sail lasers

Smaller pool. He has more Olympic and World medals than them. He’s doing fine in the current Americas Cup.

@@21142317 thats what he said and had the public believing last time. I wonder if you will be so sure of yourself when the Elimination finally happens

As a GB fan that was painful to watch 😢

One of the best sailors ever that's for sure

He could always of "GOT OUT OF THE WAY" ... He is the one that put himself in an unavoidable collision although it's very questionable as to why the judges let Ainslie (and al the others) chase as near as they do and create those situations. I believe there should always be more room between the boats but it makes for more agressive sailing. They could solve this by putting sensors on the hulls and telling the skippers to leave minimum 1metre (or an agreed distance, but shorter than 1/2 boat length) between themselves AT ALL TIMES. All this is doing is creating juniors at club lever !!!!!!! that already act as if they are Ainslie and simply run into each other running the opposition off the water. It's the sad result of TV and sponsors in sailing.

@@team3383 he's not a fricken dog, he can't just scatter! He bore away. If he kept on turning down Ainslie wul have smacked him in the arse. Ainslie went straight at him. From that moment there was nowhere for Richard to go.

@@Badmansband The rules only require that the stand on boat (Ainslie) leave room for the give way boat to maneuver out of the way without immediately causing a collision. In this case there were a good 2 or 3 seconds between Ainslie’s last course change and the collision. You could hear the crew telling Richards to come up and cross his bow to weather. He could have done that. He also could have ducked aggressively to avoid the collision or even gybed. In this case Ainslie left enough room. The protest was rightly upheld.

@@pimpmytrade I understand the rules but I still don't believe Richards had anywhere else to go. Ainslie was responsible for the collision imo. I don't think Richards had enough time to keep clear.

@@team3383That would be terrible and dull. If you don’t like it, go watch another sport.

It is! They were my second fave team! Atleast Nathan is still racing

What you are talking about is called cruising, not racing. I say; put a swivel gun on the bow to make the race more interesting.

It’s attitudes like yours that ruin racing for me. I far preferred the rules when we could deliberately hit.

That way of thinking is why you have never won an Olympic gold medal.

That's racing...

It’s not playing dirty. It’s using the rules to defeat your opponent and it takes great skill.

@@Lozzie74 that’s why people fix the rules all the time, to close the loopholes exploited by people who care more about winning than the sport they are supposed to be doing.

@@sly6627 "That way of thinking is why you have never won an Olympic gold medal." If that is what I had to do to win an Olympic gold medal, then the Olympic Gold medal is not worth winning. Win clean and fair, or all you have is a gold plated disk on a string.

If there is One thing you cannot accuse Peter Burling of is being arrogant. He is a totally quality sailor.

Bollocks.

He follows the rules. That’s what matters. If you win and follow the rules that’s all that matters, losers will always be mad when they can’t just do as they like

It was lovely in the old days when being the best at something was considered a good thing, even if losers got their feelings hurt. Survival of the fittest, Natural selection etc are what got the human race where we are, but now we frown upon dedication and excellence.

Ooooohh aren’t you a wee upset kiwi