For Skandia Team GBR the big story is that of talented 23 year old Finn sailor Giles Scott who in the last five races has posted a 1-1-4-3-2 and has now taken the lead by a point from France’s Jonathan Lobert. Ed Wright is now into third, followed by last year’s winner, Croat Ivan Kljakovic Gaspic with Ben Ainslie into fifth. The Brits have four sailors in the top 10.

“It’s great but I’ve got to be quite careful with that as I’ve got an OCS still so I can’t afford to have any mistakes tomorrow,” said Scott. “Hopefully I’ll be able to do the same as today. There is a bit of pressure on but hopefully I’ll be able to take it in my stride.”

Scott relishes the strong British competition in the Finn fleet. “It’s great. We’re all such good friends as well, we all train together, so I think we push each other quite hard and normally it ends up with us all somewhere around the top ten which is great.

“It is frustrating that only one of us will get to go to the Games, but the good thing about being such a strong nation is that if you do gain selection then you are going to a strong favourite going into the Olympics. You’ve got the best sort of people to train with.”
Scott insists he’s not phased by Ainslie’s Olympic pedigree. “I get asked that quite a lot – I try and ignore it as he’s just another Finn sailor to me!”

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