The Italian pair started the day on the wrong foot, getting disqualified from race ten due to an early start. However, they recovered and finished the day with a strong second which puts them 14 points clear at the top of the Nacra 17 rankings.
Argentina’s Mateo Majdalani and Eugenia Bosco cemented their status as the primary challengers with first in race ten and second in race 11, meaning they are the only crew that can tip the Italians to gold.
Great Britain’s John Gimson and Anna Burnet moved up to third with a brilliant performance on the water that culminated in a race win. They can take nothing for granted, as they sit level on points with New Zealand’s Micah Wilkinson and Erica Dawson.
Tita said: “There’s not going to be a match race, we are going to try and do our race, control the situation based on the points we have. Second, third and fourth are going to have a big battle and we’re going to try and stay out of that and do our race and control the advantage that we have.”
Majdalani said: “I think if you told us that we’d go into the Medal Race in second place we’d take it, so we are really, really happy. We are a bit sad with our last race that didn’t go our way. We know it’s tight in third and we need to debrief with the team to find the game plan.”
Gimson said: “We’ll sit down and take a look at everything tonight and make a plan from there.”
Burnet said: “We finally had the right strategy today – the right start, good speed. We actually went the right way which was a nice change for us. We’re confident in our speed in this wind and you can’t really do much more than focus on the details and executing your own plan, so we’ll try and do that.”
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