Team New Zealand is poised to wrest the America's Cup back from the USA when racing resumes on San Francisco Bay tomorrow morning (Thursday kiwi time). The score is currently 7-1 in the best of 17 series - would have been 7-3 except Oracle USA were docked 2 points for cheating in the lead up races)

So we need to win 2 more races to bring the cup (The Auld Mug) back home to NZ

Go Kiwis!

I wonder how many years we need to hold this thing before we can officially change its name to New Zealand's Cup.

Sorry to non-sports fans - this trophy, supposedly the oldest continuously contested trophy in all sport, is for yachting. The specially designed multi-million dollar yachts for this series have foils which lift the hulls out of the water, enabling the boats to reach speeds up to about 60 mph.

I estimate about half of NZ's population will be watching live TV coverage tomorrow (it is a working day, after all),

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