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Yachting: Prada Cup Finals TVNZ 1, 3pm It’s crunch time for the Challengers in the finals of the Prada Cup. This week Luna Rossa and Ineos Team UK battle it out for a shot at wrestling the Auld Mug from the grasp of Team New Zealand when the America’s Cup begins in March. Continues Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Watergate Prime, 8.30pm This acclaimed documentary explores the botched political plot that led to the downfall of US President Richard Nixon in 1972, and which also sparked the no...

Spithill ready for heavyweight sailing showdown vs Ainslie By BERNIE WILSONFebruary 10, 2021 GMT More than two decades after a lowkey start to his America’s Cup career, two-time champion Jimmy Spithill is back in Auckland, New Zealand, hoping to help steer Italy to its first victory in the 170-year-old competition. Spithill has come a long way since the 1999-2000 regatta, when he was the 19-year-old skipper of Young Australia. The syndicate was so underfunded it sailed an old boat, housed its...

Team New Zealand says its survival could depend on securing lucrative bids from overseas cities interested in hosting the next America’s Cup.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/sailing-billionaires-square-up/"></div>(Reuters) – As Britain and Italy go head-to-head for the right to challenge New Zealand for the America’s Cup, the teams’ billionaire backers will have their colours emblazoned across the hulls and sails of their futuristic “foiling” yachts. Behind the bold graphics are hundreds of millions which have been sunk into the Americ...

Three days before the start of the Prada Cup final, pitting Ineos Team UK against Luna Rossa of Italy, there are further signs that the British team are aiming to play a long-term role in the

The delay card is back as the AmCup heads towards tense, no-holds-barred showdowns.

INEOS Team UK isn't pleased to see the wind limit remain unchanged for the Prada Cup final and America's Cup match

INEOS Team UK — led by Sir Ben Ainslie and including fellow Island sailor, Leigh McMillan — will be making their bid for America’s Cup glory…

Americas Cup: Venue tender details leaked, as Brits emerge as possible Challenger of Record by Richard Gladwell/Sail-World 10 Feb 06:44 UTC 10 February 2021 Louis Vuitton Pacific Series - 2009 Emirates Team New Zealand v Team Origin (GBR) - Waitemata Harbour © Richard Gladwell / Sail-World.com For the past week or two, rumours have been ricocheting around the Americas Cup media centre and beyond, that the Royal Yacht Squadron will be the next Challenger of Record. T...