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Before Dr. Hamish Ross became a legal advisor for America’s Cup teams, and completed a PhD at the University of Auckland on the legal issues surrounding the event, he was a Kiwi. And as a Kiwi, he is not liking what the tea leaves are saying:
If the local Spanish media have got it right, it seems that the next defense of the America’s Cup is destined for the City of Barcelona, becoming the first Olympic city (1992) to host America’s Cup. It will join an exclusive list of past America’s Cup hosts: Cowes, New York, Newport, Fremantle, San Diego, Auckland, Valencia, San Francisco, and Bermuda.
I certainly hold no ill-will towards Spain and its people on their good fortune, if they have managed to wrest the America’s Cup hosting rights from New Zealand. Their timing is perfect as the global tourism industry is rebuilding after the effects of COVID and all its associated restrictions. I wish them well and the America’s Cup Event fair winds in new waters.
My disappointment is reserved for those responsible in New Zealand that made this outcome possible, after many decades of assurances of local Cup defenses to support the New Zealand economy to justify central government and local government financial support which amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars of funding and investment…
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