Spinning the America’s Cup bottle

Defending the America’s Cup should strengthen a team’s future. All the work to host the event was done. The venue is built. The template need only be tuned, not imagined. Easy peasy.

But then Emirates Team New Zealand overplayed their hand.

As the only team at the 2017 America’s Cup that fought the low-cost plan being pitched for future events, the Kiwi victory allowed them to shape the 2021 event into a competition of extraordinary cost.

No worries, they thought, as the advantage of creating a new class boat, in this case the out-of-worldly AC75, gave them a head start on the others. Used well, more time equals more speed, and the defender used their time well…

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