Today: September 8, 2024
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The Barkley Marathon is run through virtually impenetrable forest over a 100-mile course amounting to an ascent and descent of Mount Everest. It is devoid of course markings and GPS is forbidden. But these were seen as challenges rather than obstacles to…
As Ukraine fights for its life against the Russian invasion, the country’s star boxer Oleksandr Usyk recently enjoyed the fight of his life when he vanquished his previously undefeated British opponent, Tyson Fury. Despite his birth in Crimea and speaking Russian, he…
If the America’s Cup defenders, Team New Zealand, led by Grant Dalton and Peter Burling, win the sailing competition for Spain in October, they will demonstrate for the fifth time that their small nation can best the big nation challengers. Can they…
America’s Cup winners are usually viewed as having triumphed by being at the forefront of technology or through the sailing skills of their team. But in entering its sixth challenge to the regatta, Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, team rather focuses on…
Bouncing back from a setback in the second Preliminary Regatta in Jeddah, America’s America Cup team is doubling down. They are ensuring the boats and teams are properly prepared. They have embarked on two-boat testing and their boat, “American Magic” has arrived…
Founded in a landlocked country, the Swiss entry in the America’s Cup surprised the sailing world when it not only won in 2003 but repeated the victory in 2007. Team Alinghi’s founder, Ernesto Bertarelli has now partnered with major sports sponsor, Red…
“One person cannot do everything…” says Stephen Kandler, who is Team Principal of France’s Orient Express Racing Team challenge in the 37th America’s Cup this October. But nor can a single technology which is why the French team is drawing on planes,…
By October, British businessman, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, will have spent £145 million attempting to win the “£100 Pound Cup” in a yacht race. His quest, the trophy, better known as the “America’s Cup” has never been won by Britain despite the race…
