D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Team NZ confirming the 38th America's Cup will not be hosted in Auckland

Auckland's chances of hosting the 38th America's Cup defence in 2027 have sailed over the horizon without Government investment.

Team New Zealand has responded with a statement, saying the syndicate completely understands as 'times are tough'.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now. Darcis here with sport. Hey Darcy, Hello Ryan,
good afternoon, Good afternoon. The America's Cup. Now, you're you're
a sports man.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
So sportsman, yes, sportsman, more strength to your arms, sportsman.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
So you would I assume, be on the side of
the America's Cup. You would be wanting the government to
fundness for it to be to be held here.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
I would like to see it, but I'm not entirely
sure how many people will miss it, Like I'll enjoy it.
I really will enjoy it because I enjoy those big things.
I talk about the Olympic Games. I love the Olympic Games.
But when the lead up the Olympic Games, you couldn't
find a more miserable swine on the planet around it
if you tried. That would be me complaining about the money,
complaining about the legacy that Olympic Games leave, complaining about

(00:43):
the behind the closed doors deals, complaining about the human
rights logo. And as soon as the starter's going to go,
I'm like, wow, yes, so cool.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
You're a fanatic, and I'm off I'd like to see
it here. Seventy five million dollars would you pay that
to see it here? Because That's the thing, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well, the question is, and I don't know a great
deal about finances of the government, what does that represent
an expenditure for the government. How deeply have they looked
to this and the two billion dollars out of Barthalona
that apparently the financial the economic benefit provided that much.
Whether that's accurate or not, I don't know. Have they

(01:18):
done the number?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, here I'll tell you. I'll give you a real
world example, because we've had one today from Simeon Brown.
So they are funding ten thousand extra elective surgeries by
June yep, fifty million dollars. So ten thousand New Zealanders
will get a new HAP or a new whatever some cataracts.
And then you think about, well, what's the benefit to

(01:39):
society from doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
You can't just look at an individual amount of money
and apply that across a number of different platforms and
suggest it would have been spent there. If it's not
spent here, because there is money there that should be
there for the enjoyment of the populace, for infrastructure, for
big events, for bringing people, then there's.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Not enough money.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
That's not money.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, there's not in this money. You can't just say, well,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Believe he's saying that we we're going to spend all
this money on looking after sick people and we and
we wouldn't do it if we had the America's Cup.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Is that what they say they are, That's what he's saying.
He's saying, we're back to basics. We need roads, we
need surgeries, you know. And this is what the Council
is saying too at the moment, right. I mean, I'm
not saying it's it's the right thing. I'm just saying
that's the that's the justification.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I feel though that in all honesty, the sale GP
is the future and the America's Cup is the past.
I think it's sailed. I think it's gone. We will
watch it overseas. But the attachment that New Zealanders have
two America's Cup Team New Zealand is far from that.
I know there's a lot of key rocking around the place,
but you never see it. It's never there. We're on

(02:50):
the other side of the world, Red Sox, and I
think we look at sale GP, which turns up every year.
Getting that here, now, that's exciting, that's relevant. So you
you that's forward thinking. So yeah, I'm not dying here.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
All right, You're doing this on your show tonight.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
And why wouldn't I. Brad Butterworth is going to join
us to talk about that, about the losses of the gains,
and he's had a very interesting history of the America's
Cuplok six times four times winner, former tactician skipper jump
ship across to a ling. You remember all that from
back in the day. Well, I hope for you to
do anyway, So yeah, we'll talk to him about that,
and Neil Wagner's going to join the show later on

(03:26):
the piece. It was his last hurrah in New Zealand
Domestic Cricket Today and Northern Districts picked up the plunket
shield down in Ontigo where he started.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Look forward to a Darcy c tonight, Darcy Watergrave on Sport.
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