How dare other things take place during the Olympic Games? Earlier Emirates Team New Zealand took their AC72 for its first sail. Meanwhile out in the Atlantic Francis Joyon and his maxi-trimaran IDEC have been eating up the miles, demolishing Thomas Coville’s outright solo 24 hour record. Yesterday the London 2012 sailing in Weymouth was better for the Brits, with Ireland’s Annalise Murphy now having scored four consecutive bullets in the Radial with double bullets also in the Laser (but not by Slingsby) and the RS:X Men. Paul Goodison was in bad shape when he came ashore yesterday – he has been in severe pain since the beginning of race two on Monday.