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are right where they want to be at the midway point of their events - you couldn't have asked for more.

Top of the leaderboard in both the and the with just four more races to go before this weekend's grand finale.

It's no mean feat when you consider .

You need to show great resilience to pick your way through the course and make the best of the situations that present themselves to you because you never know what to expect, conditions out here are very unpredictable.

It could be anything - any wind strength, any direction.

Even Ben, who many expected to storm his Finn class, is finding it hard!

In his opening race everything was going to plan until he was caught out by the nautical banana skin as he was heading for the finish line.

The wind shutdown, Ainslie stopped, and sailors from nine other nations slipped past. He finished tenth. Ooooppps!

However, nothing - not even the weather - messes with Ben Ainslie and . It's going to be a tight tussle right to the end.

I'm sure he'll welcome his day off today. He told me he'd love play a round a golf, but instead he'll be working on his boat and doing his homework on the tide conditions.

The are also having a well deserved break. Sarah Ayton and her crew have that bouncebackability, as they say in football.

It hasn't all been plain sailing and they have yet to win a race here, but what they are proving - time after time - is that when things do go wrong they have both the ability and resource to put it right.

It comes down to consistency, and as Ayton said last night "we're feeling pretty cool now."

Unlike who had to endure the walk of shame through the press area after being first out of the water following a nightmare day on their .

Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong for the boys.

They even managed to pick up some tar on the centreboard underneath their boat. At least they managed to keep their sense of humour.

Morrison likened it to being on a fairground ride, "we did a lot of sliding".

Thank goodness it's a long event!