Ben Ainslie's rival for gold at London 2012, Jonas Hogh Christensen has blamed a Polish competitor and a couple of bad waves as he saw his lead cut from 10 points to three in yesterday's Finn Class racing.

Christensen capsized in the first race and fnished eighth overall. It allowed second-placed Ben Ainslie to cut his lead to four by winning the race outright.

The second race saw Ainslie claw back a 70-metre disadvantage on the final downward leg to overtake Christensen and claim third place, dropping the Dane back to fourth.

Speaking about the two races Christensen, said:  “I got a good start but unfortunately the Polish guy started on top of me and he was over the line and that ruined my start.

"I wanted to go left and I had a good lane but I had to tack off because of the Polish and that ruined the first beat for me. I got up to fifth at the top mark and caught up with the front guys on the reach and then in one moment of not being on top of the boat, I flipped to windward. It was one of the expensive ones. Then there was a lot of catching up. I really pushed hard and caught up a lot so happy to get back to eighth.”


“In the second race I did what I wanted, and got the start I wanted at the right end and had a good lane. I didn't sail a good second run and lost PJ and Ben, which wasn't very good. It was down to speed and lack of pressure. Ben sat on me quite a lot so there were times when I didn't have much pressure. Then I had two bad waves.”


“Tomorrow I need to get two good races in, and do what we've done for the past four days. I think I’ve sailed well and done what I've wanted to do. I was a bit unlucky.”

“I don't think I was more nervous  than any other day. But you're always a bit nervous at the Olympics. We have a very detailed plan from when we wake up to when we go to bed and we've been following that plan and it seems to work and it takes a lot of the pressure off.”


There is two more races, this afternoon, in the series of ten, before a medal race takes place on Sunday.

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