If I can be consistent and avoid mistakes, I'm confident I have a medal shot, but the Laser is one of the classes where sailors are most aggressive.

Robert Scheidt

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To win a medal here you have to be a complete sailor, you have to be able to sail in a wide range of conditions.

I've been sailing here (in Rio) for more than 25 years, i've never had a problem, not a single infection. Perhaps some athletes who've never sailed here have suffered something, but in general there's no danger.

The Olympics always have an issue, in Sydney it was sharks that could attack triathletes, in Athens it was fear of terrorism, in Beijing it was pollution. In Rio it's the water and Zika. But I don't this should impede the realization of a great games.

I agree conditions are not ideal but I think they are not going to take something from the competition, we need to get the water a little bit cleaner but last year we did a test event and there was no big problem.