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      Home > News > Sports > Sailing

    The America's Cup match starts in the wee small hours overnight with holders Team New Zealand taking on challengers Britannia

    The America's Cup match starts in the wee small hours overnight with holders Team New Zealand taking on challengers Britannia


    Peter Burling's champions haven't had a real race for a month while Sir Ben Ainsley's crew improved immeasurably to beat Italy's Luna Rossa in the Louis Vuitton Cup.

    Burling says they've kept on developing while they waited to see who would earn the right to face them.

    © 2026 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

     Other Sailing News
     17 Jan: The Italian city of Cagliari will host the first preliminary regatta ahead of the next America's Cup
     16 Jan: There's a Team New Zealand America's Cup vibe to the Swedish SailGP team debuting at the season-opener in Perth this weekend
     16 Jan: Swedish SailGP driver Nathan Outteridge is poised to blow out the cobwebs out as his new syndicate debuts at the season-opening event in Perth
     30 Dec: The glory of crossing the line first in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race might have been celebrated in the bars beyond Constitution Dock, but the contest for the Tattersall Cup to crown the overall handicap winner remains on the water
     28 Dec: The leading contenders have now reached the coast of Tasmania in another dramatic Sydney to Hobart yacht race
     27 Dec: In the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, Comanche remains around four miles ahead of LawConnect in the lead, with 340 miles to go
     27 Dec: The Sydney to Hobart fleet has lost its first 100-foot supermaxi, with Wild Thing 100 retiring from the 80th running of the race on the first night of sailing
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