Not a great way to win a gold medal

“Between me 🇧🇷 and Ben Ainslie 🇬🇧, I had a better discard so we were both pushing hard at the start and I knew that if we were over the line that I would win. In the end we both got disqualified which is not a great way to win a gold medal 🏅 but you take it as it comes.” Robert Scheidt on one of his two best Olympic races
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[@sysfx]

Best Laser sailor ever, misrepresented by World Sailing, as usual.

[@carlosechavarri-erasun3035]

Best Laser sailor ever, and probably best olympian too.

[@cosgrove1981]

Hows so in five olympic games he win 2gold , 2 silver and a bronze while Ainslie won 4 gold and a silver,

[@carlosechavarri-erasun3035]

​@@cosgrove1981 My take on this is based on the two competing in the laser class from 1993 to 2000. At that time, Scheidt was much better than Ainsley although it is true that Ainsley got the gold in 2000. However, in Sidney, at the very last race Robert was 17 points ahead of Ainsley. It took massive match-race skills, a bit of streching the rules, and a lot of luck for Ainsley to prevail.
He never raced in the Lasers again and moved to the Finn class where competition was much more easier.
In 2004 both won gold, Scheidt in the Laser and Ainsley in the Finn.
From 1995 to 2000 Scheidt won 4 times the world championship and dominated the class with an iron fist, Ben won two which is quite impressive but the brazilian was the much better laser sailor in my opinion.
In 2008 and 2012 Robert sailed the Star class with the top world sailors. The Star class is the elite, Robert could have won gold in the medal races in both olympics, however, he had to settle with silver and bronze sharing medals with Percy/Loof (another two legends of the sport). Ben won gold in the Finn class against not so strong competition. Kudos to him.
In those years, Robert won the Star world championship three times. The competition was insane.
Anyhow, I competed against the two multiple times in the laser class from 93 to 96.
One sailor from GBR (sailing is a national business), the other from a rather big south american nation with a lot of sailing talent, but not so much economic, infrastructure, or technical capabilities.
Yep, I rate Robert ahead of Ben. Both are legends and their merits immense. This is just a personal view of someone who shared race course back in the days... Robert was a beast (he won his last Laser world championship in 2013!), Ben a magnificient sailor who -to many- had the better career... but I just read the fine print too.

[@FelipeSilva-ld4go]

Este é fera, ícone do esporte brasileiro!

[@ednamariadeoliveira3679]

TE adora, és o meu grande ÍDOLO. Bjjjjjjs, de Edna Maria de Oliveira,

[@ednamariadeoliveira3679]

Bom dia Aamigão

[@gezzarandom]

Ben got his revenge four years later though

[@mr.nothing6350]

Yup

[@ednamariadeoliveira3679]

Uberlândia MG

[@stevenlarratt3638]

Dirty dirty

[@atakd]

Only if you don't undestand sailing. I believe that in rugby some players grab hold of opponents to stop them scoring a try.