Olympic Protests | 4

I've heard back from John Doerr about my inquiry into the lack of facts found on the Olympic Protests.
Although the publishing of their findings is not something the Jury has control off, he indicated he was in favor of improving that situation.He was at that moment however not able to do something about it.

Due to a trick with selection and copy/paste, I was able to get most of the text yesterday. I send another E-mail asking permission to publish the more interesting cases. That is however no longer necessary.

Somehow the people in Qingdao were able to get their act together and a full a description of each protest is now available on the official website: Go to Protest Decisions and click on View full decision on the appropriate line in the last column.

To get back to my example in my earlier post: Olympic Protest | 3:

Protest nr 30:

Original Description: NOR and CAN on port approached mark 4P Both boats entered the two boat length zone overlapped with CAN on the inside While rounding the mark NOR hit CAN on the leeward side of the stern CAN was close to the mark at the moment of contact Contact occurred with no damage No boat took a penalty turn or retired The Jury has a record of the actual foul and abusive language that NOR used

Description after re-opening: Revised following re-opening under Rule 66 based on significant new evidence NOR and CAN on port approached mark 4P Both boats entered the two boat length zone overlapped with CAN on the inside While rounding the mark NOR hit CAN on the leeward side of the stern CAN was close to the mark at the moment of contact Contact occurred with no damage No boat took a penalty turn or retired

Event: Finn - Open

Race: 7

Protestor: CAN

Protestee: NOR

Protest details: Reopening

Facts found:

Conclusion: NOR failed to give room as an outside boat and broke RRS 18.2(a)

Rule(s) applicable: RRS 18.2(a), RRS 14, RRS 63.3(b)

Decision: Revised decision: NOR broke rule 18.2(a) and is DSQ in Race 7

Short decision: NOR DSQ in race 7

Jury: Jan Stage – Chairman, Quanhai Li, Ana Maria Sanchez, John Doerr, Zofia Truchanowicz,

You can read the rest of them yourselves. Please don't hesitate to ask if you have questions.