Don’t Make Ben Ainslie Angry! 4 Times Ainslie Went Hulk Mode…
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Sir Ben Ainslie is the most successful Olympic sailor of all time. Winning 4 Gold medals and 1 Silver. In the Finn class and the Laser class.
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From early in his sailing career Ainslie developed a reputation as a ruthless competitor who did not take well to people getting in the way of him winning. Missing out on gold in Atlanta 1996 Ainslie honed his trademark match racing skills.
This video details moments from the Monsoon Cup, the 2000 Olympics in Syndey, the 2012 Olympic Sailing in London and SailGP.
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I dont undestand that olympic thing what happened? Can someone explain?
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!
“You haven’t won the race, if in winning the race you have lost the respect of your competitors”. [the great dinghy sailor] Paul Elvstrom
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.
I felt the penultimate race in Weymouth 2012 showed more genius by Ainslie than the final. In the penultimate, Ainslie pushed out Hogh-Christiansen, then in 2nd, far enough to allow the another competitor (the Swede?) to insert himself in second position between Ainslie and H-C, then Ainslie scooted for the line. That showed incredible creativity, courage and judegement of distance. The spectators in Weymouth were looking at each other not quite believing their eyes that this was Ainslie's plan. They were thrilled when he pulled it off.
If I did that in club racing I’d be disqualified
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.
I find it funny how many people in the comments hating sail lasers? Even just club racing? Cause if you’re in a club where the sailors are good and competitive then you know that the rules are more important than your emotions.
Thank you for posting this. Gives me a whole new perspective on the 'sportsman' sir Ben Ainslie. I agree with the comments below - disgraceful. Can't believe anyone applauds this kind of behaviour. What a poor role model.
Then dont watch rugby. it will make your hurty feelings even worse.
So you’re mad that he followed the rules and won?
Well, far more interesting than I thought
This video is missing the disclaimer that is aim is educating sailors on what not to do
I don't get it, why this behaviour is still praised and accepted by so many. I see a man, who is a victim of and reacts badly to the pressure he and his surrounding put on him.
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.
Legend
When lawyers go sailing.
They all use lawyers and it is because a huge amount of money is at stake.
Makes it far more entertaining for the spectators.
Certainly adds to the drama!
Then, humiliated by Luna Rossa A.C. 2021.
Still went home with a load of money.....
His aggression makes him dangerous on the water.
The best skippers in the world are just good, they don't throw themselves around like this muppet
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
That thing at the top mark in Atlanta was a totally clear cut port and starboard, with Ainsley on port at the moment of contact, and then gybing into the windward boat position. So, failure to give way twice.
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...
Don't even ask him about the Dubai Final of the SailGP- what an absolute disaster!
As a GB fan that was painful to watch 😢
Where the F was Richard supposed to go? Teleport to the other side?
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.
What an unpleasant character
Massive skill. Rules the waves!!
One of the best sailors ever that's for sure
Shame jpn pulled out of sail gp
It is! They were my second fave team! Atleast Nathan is still racing
When you can’t sail faster slow the adversary and play dirty trick just like big old fat Dennis. Pretty sad to win like he does.
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.
All this is what ruins yacht racing for me. If only it was just about getting around a course quicker than everyone else, taking into account tides, wind shifts etc.
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.
And now🤣
Huh! Never knew sailing was a contact sport!
It’s a disgusting decision tbh. Maybe it was legal. But clearly immoral and not in the bounds of fair racing.
Bakboord!😂
Robert Shite
The guy should be nick named “Ankles” ….
Tool
wtf is this picture quality
He's definitely never learned "sports man ship" at all. His behaviors are totally unpleasant things ever. I believe most of people who have been praising his behaviors are completely forgot the fundamental polisy of sailing as "SPORTS" on RRS. He or someone like him should read and know more about RRS's basic principles. Of course, I know he is the one of the best, at least for the technique on sailing, sailer though.
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
Lol, rules of the road…no one likes a Sunday driver.
What an unpleasant guy
What a disgrace
It’s just not cricket old chap…
Alpha male or Muppet as it used to be called.
Both guys act quite unsporty
So he's just a bad sportsman I get it don't watch any ⛵ sport
Slingsby makes this bloke look like an amateur. 🇭🇲🦘😆👍
Ooooohh aren’t you a wee upset kiwi