America’s Cup Final LIVE: Ben Ainslie’s Ineos Britannia vs Team New Zealand – races 1 & 2

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Team
New Zealand and Britannia (GB) will go head to head in the 37th America’s Cup
sail racing match, the oldest international sporting competition in the world.

Britannia, representing the Royal Yacht Squadron
from Great Britain, are the challengers. They earned their spot in the final
match having won the Louis Vuitton Cup qualifying event by beating 2021
America’s Cup runners-up Luna Rossa of Italy, and are the first British team to
sail in the America’s Cup in 60 years.

Meanwhile, Team New Zealand represent the Royal
New Zealand Yacht Squadron, and are the two-time defending champions from 2017
and 2021.

The match will be raced as a best-of-13 series
taking place off the coat of Barcelona, with the first boat to seven race wins
claiming the America’s Cup, which was first contested in 1851. They will race
on AC75 monohull foil yachts, which can reach race speed of over 100 km/h.

Led by sailing legend Ben Ainslie and backed by
billionaire businessman and fellow honours recipient Jim Ratcliffe, the British
challenge bids to bring home the cup to the country where it all started.