Toyota dockside in Bermuda: Peter Lester - The playing field in Bermuda is not even
If Team New Zealand are to take out this Americas Cup, they need to be significantly better than Oracle Team USA. The reality is, as is the case with every Americas Cup, its not an even playing field in Bermuda.
Oracle have set the rules to suit them, theyve had a chance to test their boat out against Emirates Team New Zealand in the challenger series, they have a second boat, they even have a one-point advantage going into it.
If theyre to overcome these odds, Team NZ need to have a faster boat than Oracle, and they need they need to sail better than Oracle. Team NZ know this.
Where the Kiwi team are so strong is they know how to play the game, because their key backroom guys have been in and around it for so long.
Theyve got some experienced heads in the backroom who have learned how to operate from a design prioritisation point of view, managing the sailing programme, the general operational stuff, and even legal.
They know what an Americas Cup is all about, whereas we saw with some of the campaigns like Ben Ainslie Racing and, to a certain extent, Artemis they were perhaps held back by inexperience at times.
I see a hell of a lot of parallels in this Team NZ campaign to 1995. They have a radical boat, a young, talented crew and a helmsman that is at the top of his game.
Ive been lucky enough to see Peter Burling compete for a number of years, and he is one of those guys that just sees the game early.
Couple that with his intellect and his engineering background, and you can see why he is considered the countrys best and brightest sailing talent.
He can talk to the designers and engineers at their level - thats a hell of an advantage I would have thought.
What I also like about Burling is he is unflappable - the guy has ice running through his veins. Hes certainly not walking around the Team NZ base with the worries of the world on his shoulders.
I dont think Team NZ starting from a point behind is going to be a huge factor, but at minimum they will want to have parity by the end of the opening weekend of racing.
The way the schedule works this time around, with four races scheduled this weekend and then a five-day break before race five, that could have a big psychological impact.
If one of the teams is really strong this weekend, that will play on the other teams mind next week.
Ordinarily, if you have a bad race youre on the water again the next day with the opportunity to put it behind you.
In this scenario, if you have bad opening weekend, imagine how that is psychologically to have to wait from Tuesday through to Saturday before you race again.
After San Francisco of course, no New Zealand fan is ever going to feel comfortable even if Team NZ have a dominant opening weekend.
But the good thing is, those on board the New Zealand boat dont carry those same scars from San Fran, because aside from skipper Glenn Ashby, it is an entirely new crew. Well see tomorrow what they can deliver.
Jimmy Spithill has admitted yesterdays bow stunt was a calculated move to wind up the Team New Zealand camp on the eve of the Americas Cup match in Bermuda.
Two Team Japan crew members were yesterday spotted carrying two shiny red bows from the Oracle compound next door to the headquarters of the Japanese syndicate.
The implication was that Oracle, as they are permitted to do under the Cup rules, were putting together a second boat using Team Japans hulls.
Speaking at the traditional pre-Americas Cup skippers press conference, Spithill said it was all a clever ruse to mess with the heads of Team NZ, and apparently the media, who he claimed to have missed dearly during his 10-day downtime in between official appearances.
I think it just shows you guys will fall for anything, last time it was a stability augmentation system called Herbie.
This time it was no coincidence that we saw the spy boat out there, I just cant believe you guys fell for it again, said Spithill.
Despite claiming the bows were just a prank, Spithill would not confirm or deny that Oracle had a back-up boat at the ready should their race boat sustain damage.
Asked how the second boat was coming along, the two-time Americas Cup winning skipper responded:. Im hoping not to need it. I think were expecting very aggressive, very tight racing.
The teams are at at very high level and youll see us pushing very hard and for either of us pushing too hard and going over that line can have big consequences, he said.
Youll just going to have to wait and see. Weve got our race boat and thats what were planning to race.
I think its a very, very competitive boat. The guys have done a lot of work, a lot of upgrading and we feel well be competitive..
Olympic rowing champion, turned Americas Cup cyclor, Joe Sullivan has admitted to some unpleasant side effects of his power work in Bermuda.
As Team New Zealand prepare for the first-to-seven Cup match against Oracle Team USA, starting on Sunday morning, Sullivan and fellow former Olympian, sprint cyclist Simon van Velthooven have given an insight into what the cyclors go through during a race.
Both are well used to experiencing pain in the previous sporting careers. Even so it takes some managing.
Van Velthooven said Sullivan, double sculling gold medallist at the London Olympics of 2012 with Nathan Cohen, loses his sense of taste when hes driving himself hard during racing.
You can lose your sight a bit towards the end and you definitely lose your hearing a little bit, Sullivan said. Its just putting yourself into pain. In rowing, it is pretty easy.
As soon as you start the race youre hitting the red zone. Youre in a lot of pain and its just about managing it and keeping in that zone where you dont fail and can keep pushing.
In sailing its much the same. Youre really pushing everything youve got. You have to be really single focussed, nothing else matters apart from that one goal of putting out as much power as you can.
Van Velthooven, bronze medallist in the keirin at the London Olympics five years ago, went a step further.
When he goes into those dark places, he doesnt know whats going on and sometimes in training he cant see after doing a big effort, he said of Sullivan.
He knows how to push himself, but when youre pushing as hard as you can and youre told its time to run across the boat youve got to keep conscious 100 percent or else youre falling off the front or the back.
Van Velthooven said the physical exertion is distinctly different to riding a bike. Youre pulling and pushing a dead weight so you need to train the right muscle for the right movement.
It was a learning curve for me as well as the team to train your body to power the pump. Sullivan, double sculling gold medallist with Nathan Cohen in London, said the cyclors needed plenty of recovery time.
It hurts a lot, definitely destroys muscle and its not something you can do a lot over and over. Recovery is extremely important, rest and making sure were eating the right foods and keeping well hydrated.
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