America's Cup News
The Foil Weekly Wrap - 2 Feb '26
Ernesto Bertarelli wants Luna Rossa to win the America's Cup. Yes, really. That's just one of the eyebrow-raisers from a week that also brought a heroic F50 repair job, Riptide being tossed a potential lifeline, and Harry Melges...
Iain ‘Goobs’ Jensen joins ETNZ
Some deals in sport just make sense. Iain Jensen signing for Emirates Team New Zealand is absolutely one of them. When Pete Burling and Josh Junior packed their bags for Luna Rossa last year, they left a gaping hole in New...
How SailGP decides who's right at 50 knots
Sometimes Craig Mitchell and his team of SailGP umpires feel the benefit of operating remotely from a windowless studio in London. The chief umpire of SailGP since it began six years ago, Mitchell thinks back to one particularly...
Where America’s Cup careers will be made
The grand reveal of the America’s Cup at the media presentation in Naples last week delivered one striking image above all else: all five founding partners of the new America’s Cup partnership standing on stage together.
The Foil Weekly Wrap - 26 Jan '26
This week saw Thomas Coville's Sodebo smash the Jules Verne Trophy time while The Famous Project became the first all-female crew to sail nonstop around the world on a multihull. Elsewhere, the America's Cup finally announced...
AC38: 6 key questions that still need answers
The launch event in the Palazzo Reale di Napoli for the 38th America's Cup this week was certainly impressive. But in terms of things actually learned? We're not left with a whole lot more than we already knew from the America’s...
Rise of the machines: Why automation is a problem
Did you know that Tom Cruise does his own movie stunts? Yes, of course you do. It’s part of the reason why his movies are such profitable blockbusters. After 30 or more years of incredible CGI effects, the Mission Impossible...
AC38: 6 things we learned today in Naples
Against the opulent backdrop of Naples' Palazzo Reale – all frescoed ceilings and gilded mirrors – the America's Cup teams, sponsors, and organisers gathered this morning to officially launch the Louis Vuitton 38th America's Cup.
Ainslie names Fletcher as helm for new GB1 attack
Dylan Fletcher will be the helm of GB1, the new name for Sir Ben Ainslie’s campaign for the 2027 edition of the America’s Cup in Naples. Fresh off the back of steering Emirates GBR to victory last weekend at the opening event of...
