Ireland's Olympic 49ers can prosper  at Guanabara Bay

With just days remaining before the racing begins in the Olympic Regatta at Rio 2016, Ireland’s squad of four boats have arrived in the Brazilian city and will be attending tomorrow night’s opening ceremony.

Rios’s seven racing courses will each present distinctive and frequently complex conditions to contend.

Unlike the London 2012 venue of Weymouth & Portland with it’s generally breezy prevailing south-westerly weather pattern, Rio is famed for it’s light and shifty airs that could easily give way to stronger conditions if a weather front passes over.