The Hundred Guineas Jug will continue in New Zealand because Team New Zealand won its fifth America’s Cup yesterday, third in a row, against England. The score of 7-2 does not call into question the great superiority of the New Zealand sailors, who only missed one day in which the English won the two regattas held, ultimately the only two points with which they finished in this edition.
A priori, the last race held yesterday should not have had serious problems for the Kiwis, who came out to finish the job before entering the pre-start box. The bad tongues said that the New Zealand team was going to give “quarters” to the English so that they could get a point and extend the competition a little more, but knowing Grant Dalton, CEO of Team New Zealand, “a bird in the hand is better than hundreds in the bush.” ».
New Zealand went out to win, but England did not make it easy for them and was closer to victory than defeat, although the Kiwi hammer did not give them any respite. They won the pre-start, the start and each and every one of the markers of the six stages they competed. Ben Ainslie’s men, always at the stern of the Defender, came within 10 meters, but New Zealand’s better speed stretched that advantage to 100 meters.
In this edition of the Copa América the English team has not been very fortunate, perhaps having the problem in its CEO, Ben Ainslie, who insists on being at mass and ringing and wants to manage the team and, at the same time, take control of the rudder. England has missed a golden opportunity to return to the English Crown that Hundred Guineas Jug that it lost to its queen and fighting with the Royal Navy against the schooner America at Cowes, Whight Island, in 1851.
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