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Jun 10

Immense

So what is happening in the Americas Cup you ask. Well the BBC are covering it quite extensively and it is live on BT Sport as well as NBC Sports. However as you asked I will update you.

Today begins the Challenger Play-Off’s Final, a best of 9 series of races that come Monday will give us the challenger to the defenders Team Oracle.

I spent little time at my desk this week and a lot of time up at the Americas Cup Village in Royal Dockyard, and saw some immense racing in some intense weather conditions.

Tuesday we had our first considerable rainfall for months and the Village resembled a huge wet t-shirt contest as thousands of people watched what five time Olympian Sir Ben Ainslie called “the most exciting, exhilarating day of sailing I’ve ever been involved in”.

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May 28

Ship ahoy

Shiver me timbers. Sorry that’s a pirate term, but still…. I have been very lucky to attend a lot of the biggest sporting events, and I have to tell you that the opening day of the 35th Americas Cup will join the list of very memorable days out, and up there with the Masters, The Open, Ashes test matches, Wimbledon and Olympic events. 

The Americas Cup village, built on land that wasn’t even there a year ago, was immaculate and beautifully presented. More than 10,000 people, a sixth of the island’s population, watched the first day’s sail boat racing from various viewpoints and the excitement was plain to see and hear. In Bermuda election year I just wish the politicians would stop trying to score points off each other, and accept that this little island is going to experience something very special and create memories long lasting over these next 6 weeks. 

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May 9

Americas Cup 2017 teams – Land Rover BAR

Four time Olympic gold medalist Sir Ben Ainslie is possibly the world’s most recognizable face in the world of sailing, and he and his wife, ex-Sky Sports presenter Georgie Thompson, are often been spotted here since moving to Bermuda last year. 

Born in Macclesfield to a sailing family Ben won Olympic medals at five consecutive Olympic Games and has reams of world sailing titles and was instrumental in Team Oracle winning the 2013 Americas Cup. Oracle recruited Ainslie as the crew’s chief tactician with the team losing 5-0 to Emirates Team New Zealand. Spithill, Ainslie, Slingsby and others then turned around the deficit to eventually win 9-8 after being 1-8 down. 

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