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Madelyn Moore failed to reach the semi-finals of the 50 metres backstroke yesterday at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she finished fifth in heat two in a time of 30.59sec.
Moore was 1.20 seconds behind the winning time of 29.3...
DATE: Oct 11, 2018
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Lawrence Trott
Madelyn Moore will be hoping to launch her participation at the Youth Olympics in earnest today when she takes to the pool to contest the 50 metres backstroke.
Moore, who is joined in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by fellow swimmer Kai Legband and 400 met...
DATE: Oct 10, 2018
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Bermuda will not host any of a series of lead-up events to the 36th America’s Cup in Auckland, New Zealand.
Any hopes the island had were dashed after the United States, Asia, Europe and New Zealand were confirmed as venues for build-up events to the...
DATE: Jan 26, 2018
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Colin Thompson
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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Stephen Wright