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Team New Zealand capsizes during a training run

SThey like to fight with hooks and eyes, with feint and fouls in order to lull the opponent into a deceptive security. The capsizing of the New Zealand team during the training runs for the America’s Cup in New Zealand on Monday was definitely not out of their bag of tricks: The team that has so far been awarded the greatest chance of winning and defending the cup lost in the gusts just before Auckland control of their AC75. On the starboard bow, the bow of the yacht undercut after the jibe, followed by emergency braking in a wall of spray. The capsizing was unstoppable. As of Friday, the teams from America, Italy and England will sail out the right to challenge the New Zealanders.

Christoph Hein

Business correspondent for South Asia / Pacific based in Singapore.

Their crew remained uninjured when capsizing. This is important news, especially for the small America’s Cup world. Because with Andrew “Bart” Simpson a British sailor drowned under the catamaran when the Swedish Artemis Racing capsized during training for the 2013 Cup off San Francisco. Simpson was a close friend of Sir Ben Ainslie, who now controls the British boat off New Zealand. Jimmy Spithill, now one of the two Italian boatmen, interpreted the British man’s death with a view to Formula 1 as the “Ayrton Senna moment of sailing”. “Unlike Formula 1, sailing is sometimes difficult to figure out because we have to deal with an area that is beyond our control – the elements. The wind and the sea will always make our sport unpredictable, but for the first time ever we are not only focusing on speed, but also on safety, ”said the Australian at the time.

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