Andrew Alderson: ZB Sports on 49er sailors leading in Marseille, Lewis Clareburt's medal hopes

Sailors Isaac McHardie and Will McKenzie are first after the opening day of the men's 49er competition off the Marseille coast. The pair triumphed immediately, before posting a third and an eighth. 

Meanwhile, in efforts to snag New Zealand’s first Olympic swimming medal since 1996, Lewis Clareburt faces tough competition in France’s Leon Marchand.  

And, rain continues to disrupt water quality at training in the River Seine.  

ZB Sports Andrew Alderson gives Ryan Bridge the latest. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Andrew all listeners with us for sport. Good morning greetings.
How are we doing these forty nine er sailors in Mussam?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, Imus say, the probably the best of the performers
of the New Zealand team overnight, I think winning a race.
They're opening race setting a standard, picked up a third
and then they've had an eighth as well. But you
can drop your worst performance, so they can drop the
eighth for now depending on how they go with the
rest that are regatta. So that's an excellent effort from

(00:28):
McKenzie and McCarty, so well done to them. Not so
good for the forty nine er effects Joe la and
Molly Meach last by comparison, so that's a bit of
a contrast anyway.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
But what about early days Lewis Claibert. Is he going
to do it this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Cheap as I hope. So it's been a long wait
for a middle on a pool for New Zealand nineteen
ninety six, Danion Loader. I was at university at the time.
We watched it in the university hostel up the road
at Iraq Hall and it was quite something. But it
seems a long time ago, twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Eight years crazy, maybe he.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Can, but he struggled to some degree in the heat,
I did think, And he finished fourth, and it's going
to be a struggle to take out Leon Marshaun with
that French crowd behind him, So there's one medal, I
would have thought. So, yeah, he's got a battle on
his hands.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, and the new Michael Phelps they're calling him, aren't
they that? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
He and honestly he was really impressive. Yeah, Yeah, terrific
medley swimmer and just yeah, I just think you've almost Yeah,
you just gain some meters or some sort of slipperiness
when you get in the pool with that sort of crowd, Yeah,
behind you.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
The water quality in the river sense, Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's ongoing, right is it? I mean I think should
they have moved this by now? I mean it's so
depend on if they get rain, then they get problems.
So they're kind of waiting on the weathers to see it.
And it's disruptive for the triathletes and the marathon swimmers
for that matter. So yeah, they couldn't They couldn't train
today because of the rain and therefore washes it through

(01:59):
and it stirs it all up, et cetera. So one day,
the quality is okay. Next it's not. It just seems
they had a lot there. It's not a particularly good
element to the Games. I mean there's been some great
elements so far, but that's that's a bit of.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
A sound across. Yeah, the medal tally, Australia we don't
feature too prominently on that.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Making up the numbers at the moment. But it's all
about the medals, right.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, it is Australia is out in front at the moment.
Apparently they are.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
They've had some six medals for all reckoning.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, four golds, two silvers. I've got South Korea in there, China,
Japan up there, the US up there too.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, here are we the usual suspect. Yeah, maybe it's
maybe it's gonna be a little clear of it, I hope,
so fingers crossed.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, it will be awesome. So any medal, whether it's bronze,
it would be our first swimming medal since nineteen ninety six.
That's right. Yeah, we're a country surrounded by water, shouldn't
we'd be good at something.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well that's what the silists are doing.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Well that true anyway? True? All right, Andrew Ortison was
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