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Patrick Singleton hopes his idea of giving Olympians a chance to award themselves by putting OLY after their name will help their post-athletic careers.
The honour is available to the 100,000 living Olympians after the World Olympians Association, of...
DATE: Dec 14, 2017
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AUCKLAND (AP) — The next America’s Cup will be contested in radical, single-hull boats that will rise up on hydrofoils and speed across the tops of the waves.
Emirates Team New Zealand, who won AC35 in Bermuda last summer and are always bold in pushi...
DATE: Nov 21, 2017
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America's Cup racing could return to Bermuda as early as 2019 after all.
Russell Green, the Emirates Team New Zealand rules expert, revealed in an interview with Sailing Illustrated that five overseas pre-regattas will take place over a two-year peri...
DATE: Oct 12, 2017
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Colin Thompson
AUCKLAND (Reuters) — The next America’s Cup regatta will be sailed in Auckland in 2021 in 75-foot monohull yachts but only if New Zealand’s largest city can build the infrastructure needed to stage the regatta, holders Team New Zealand said yesterday...
DATE: Sep 29, 2017
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Bermuda’s hopes of hosting an event during the build up to the 36th America’s Cup appear to have been scuttled.
Matteo de Nora, the Emirates Team New Zealand principal, has confirmed that the next instalment of the “Auld Mug” will be held in Auckland...
DATE: Jun 30, 2017
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Grant Dalton’s gamble to place Emirates Team New Zealand’s hopes of victory in the hands of rookie America’s Cup helmsman Peter Burling certainly paid off.
The Kiwis chief executive came under heavy fire for his controversial decision to replace Dean...
DATE: Jun 29, 2017
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Sir Ben Ainslie, the Land Rover BAR skipper, believes the America’s Cup should stick largely to its present format, including the foiling multihull catamarans.
Ainslie said it would be a return to the “Dark Ages” if Emirates Team New Zealand, who sna...
DATE: Jun 29, 2017
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Peter Burling is looking forward to “a pretty cool few weeks” sharing his America’s Cup win with the rest of New Zealand after celebrating the conclusion of a gruelling campaign with his opponent Jimmy Spithill in Bermuda.
The 26-year-old calmly stee...
DATE: Jun 28, 2017
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New Zealand’s Murray Jones may be ready to call it a day on America’s Cup campaigns after scoring a sixth win in Bermuda as performance coach for Emirates Team New Zealand.
Murray, who is one of the most successful America’s Cup veterans, has previou...
DATE: Jun 28, 2017
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Annabel Vose was the only woman sailing in the sport’s biggest event of the year, but the 22-year-old Britain made her mark, winning the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup in Bermuda as strategist on the Land Rover BAR Academy team.
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DATE: Jun 28, 2017
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