There’s nothing like a cool breeze on a sweltering day, or during an Olympic sailing regatta.

There was not much of a breeze for long stretches in the early days of these Paris Summer Games, meaning that, nearly every day since the sailing schedule opened, officials had to either postpone or abandon a race.

“That’s a very tough situation (officials are) in over there,” said international race official Peter van Muyden. “The wind drops, but there are some boats in front and then (officials) have to decide to abandon the race. Well, as you can imagine, the boats up front aren’t very happy about that. But the boats in the back are very happy.”