Team New Zealand’s innovation and Peter Burling’s ineffable calm have returned the America’s Cup to New Zealand. New Zealand has won back the America’s Cup, in the process avenging one of the most humiliating capitulations in sport and perhaps justifying the vast government investment which facilitated this epic plot to regain it. Everything we imagine to … Read more
With the countdown on to this weekend’s big deciding race, test your knowledge of all things America’s Cup related, from boats to Bermuda. Having trouble viewing the quiz? Take it here.
In part two of The Spinoff Music’s two-is-not-a-thing sports series, Steve Newall goes in search of that most elusive beast: the great sports song. Read part one, in which Gareth Shute writes a new All Blacks supporters’ song, here. New Zealand has tried its hand at many a sporting song, with everyone from the Feelers to … Read more