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The final word on the America’s Cup!
When the decision to move away from Auckland because the then New Zealand government reckoned the America’s Cup wasn’t worth supporting to the required level. Many people criticized Grant Dalton and Emirates Team New Zealand with talk that Barcelona wouldn’t work for one reason or another.
Well after the crowds that attended the 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona spending multiple millions of Euro in the city, I am sure the powers that be in New Zealand are regretting that it wasn’t New Zealand Dollars being injected into their tourism industry and economy in general.
There, that’s got the politics out of the way, what about the event itself? We don’t know if the two European teams from France and Switzerland and France would have found competing on the other side of the world rather than on relatively home waters, but the event attracted a healthy number of challengers, the city and its citizens appear to have welcomed them and the event with open arms, and it was good to see crowds of people lining the foreshore on each of the race days.
Of course the venue was much more accessible by the fans of all the teams than Auckland would have been, except for the defender’s supporters but they too were there in their droves.
Picture ©Job Vermeulen/ America’s Cup.
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