Plain sailing for Annalise

Ireland’s Annalise Murphy made a dream start to her first Olympic regatta when she delivered a confident pair of race wins in the Laser Radial class, sailing in the brisk wind conditions which she prefers.

Murphy showed no sign of stage fright on the biggest day of her sailing career, instead simply rolled out the kind of performance she has shown herself capable of many times on these waters.

“You can’t get much better than that, can you?’’ smiled Murphy. “But, of course, it’s only the first day, there’s a lot of racing left.’’