Sixteen Sporting Conclusions for 2016

America’s Cup CEO Russell Coutts may be among the most notable of Kiwi athletes, but the New Zealand Herald took a swipe at his event when columnist Dylan Cleaver included the America’s Cup in his list of 16 sporting conclusions for 2016:

“America’s Cup organizers are serving nobody well. The AC World Series has featured some spectacular in-shore racing but with so little resting on the result the series has fallen into a vacuum. There is also a glaring lack of frisson that normally characterizes America’s Cup relations. The Cup without controversy is like the Melbourne Cup without horses – a bit of a waste of time and money.”

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