2023-12-03 15:01:16
Was the last buoy. The definitive sleeve in which the two sailboats They risked everything. He Emirates Team New Zealand wearing a slight advantage about him Luna Rossa Prada Pirellibut there were only a few minutes left to find out who the winner of the preliminary regatta of the America’s Cup of sailing in Jeddah. The Italians, at that moment with the young man Marco Gradoni as helmsman, they turned too hard and they sank the stern.
He brand new AC40 It was flooded, the two holes in which the four crew members were placed, impassable. An ‘oh’ was heard everywhere: Red Moon I was out of the race. Steps He took off his helmet, spat out the salt water of the Red Sea, his magnificent feat ended in that moment. Italia He regrets the bad luck of his team, which has had a brilliant performance in the pre-regatta in Saudi Arabia.
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Lose “with your head held high”
“Red Moon makes a ‘splash’ and loses (with his head held high) in the final”, headlines the Time.news of the ‘La Stampa’ sailing expert special sent to Jeddah, Fabio Pozzo. The journalist, as a good Italian sports writerbegins with “Peccato, davvero peccato” (which could be translated as “Pity, real pity”) and the good navigation displayed by the ‘azzuro’ team.
The truth is that, from the first press conference, the Luna Rossa athletes They had assured that they were going out compete without any pressure. That they had come to Jeddah to have fun, the rod assured Roger Tita. While the Americans demanded a victory, the British asked themselves to do a better job than in Vilanova or the Swiss brandished their experience in waters of the Red Sea a few weeks prior to predict good results, the Italians smiled and they wanted to show on the regatta course that in Barcelona they will fight for the title.
Three Italians, five Kiwis
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So it was. The fight in three days of preliminary It has been fought between Kiwis and Italians. The first ones managed cinco of the ocho victories in the rounds prior to the final and Red Moon he won the other three. The comments from the rest of the teams, each day at the end, were valuing the good form of the Italians, who also had their first quartet, a group that, he explained StepsI had only trained together 11 times.
The all mighty Jimmy Spithill (with two America’s Cups in their pockets) and Francesco Bruni, the supposed ‘starters’ of the squad, did not take the controls of the AC40 on this occasion, as in Vilanova, but the less experienced ones, despite the final ‘splash’they gave much more to talk about.
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