LONDON: Italian challengers Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli will this week attempt to wrest the America's Cup from holders Emirates Team New Zealand after a 21-year wait for a second shot at the oldest trophy in international sport.
The America's Cup, which was first won in 1851 by the schooner America in a race around the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England, is a design-led head-to-head competition which attracts some of the world's best sailors. Out-sailing the Kiwis, who are defending the Cup after beating the United States in Bermuda in 2017, was likened by British sailor Ben Ainslie to beating the All Blacks national rugby team at their home stadium Eden Park in Auckland.Steered by skipper Peter Burling, New Zealand convincingly demonstrated their revolutionary"foiling" yacht's speed in December when they won a pre-America's Cup series, which included Luna Rossa as well as British and US contenders.
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