D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on SailGP being moved to Auckland for next year

Auckland Council has confirmed the venue for next year's SailGP.

It's hosting the start of the Australasian leg in January after Christchurch proved too problematic and it was moved.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave addressed some concerns ahead of the event.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy Watergrave, host of Sports Talkers with me right now, Hey, dars.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Greetings, have a sale GP. Well it's here. How good?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Okay? So how is it that they've managed to remediate
the site They could not be remediated before at the
win your point, I.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Don't know, but the lease has expired, so BP no
longer have responsibility over that. Was it, shel wrothort was BP?
Look one of those great big conglomerates and they're one
of the gas pumping I don't know, but they've the
lease has expired now so they don't have to worry
about dealing with that. The mitigating circumstances are they're still
a little worried about the possible toxicity of that particular

(00:35):
area of tow at limp at Winded Quarter, which is
exactly where Sir Russell Coots wants his baby part. From
what I can gather, they're going they're looking at the
ways to mitigate the threat. It's only for a short
amount of time, so that might come into it, like
it's only a couple of weeks. Maybe they'll what can
you put down to stop that? Maybe rollsome breamworth.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Out How toxic can the place seriously be? If you're
sitting there for like how long you watch this thing
for if you're sitting in a stand, well not that long,
like a couple of hours.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, but I don't know what the toxicity levels are
of things like that. I talk aboudiculous it does, but
I think that maybe, and I don't know this for sure,
but Sir Russell cooks after that, Let's face it, that
was an embarrassment for him. It's his home city, it's
the city of Sales, and he couldn't do what he
wanted to do, and he packed the sad, went down
and started pestering dolphins. So he's come back again good,

(01:30):
And i'd suggest that over the passing time he's made
absolutely sure that this embarrassment will not happen again. So
whatever James's paol, whatever he's done behind the scenes, I
would suggest would work.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Because the Auckland officials have got the hurry up.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
What may be you think about all the people on
the waterfront, all the businesses on the waterfront that are
suffering because the bridge won't go down, They will be
absolutely keen to actually get people there. So I expect
they would have leaned in as well and said, hey,
what can we do about this because this is really
essential for major events, and Tataki are Auckland unlimited. This

(02:08):
is huge for them. This is a major event and
they can't be dropping the ball on this one. So
whatever happened in the background, most of us won't care
as long as we get.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
I'm stoked and amazing event. Christ To you take your dolphins,
I'll take my boats. Auckland FC. Hey signing it Mount Smart?
What is it Mount Smart's actual name?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Go Media Stadium, Mount Smart.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I needed to say that other than I'm going to
get a text from Mike go Media, crack at me?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Does he line your pockets? Does he not? Okay, fine,
that's all right. That's the nose. And I'm just saying
it's a sponsorship. It's like a sponsorship. I feel that
I don't have to call any of these stadiums by anything.
I don't pay me to do it. Do they.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I've got nothing from Mike other than abusive texts about this.
Like nothing from Mike other than abusive texts.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Okay, I want to as goodwill, I should start using
a proper name. I'm still calling it a Rata tongue,
which is the name of the hell before people turned
up and quirryed it for motorways way back in the day.
Oh that was great. Settler's a way.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
I'm not surprised that that it's Mount Smart because they
have been involved. I suspect from the start.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, this has been a very poorly kept secret. Everybody's known,
but it's now I've finally been official, it's been rubber stamped.
It's five years. There's not going to be a great
deal of change around the place itself. That all they've
got to do is work out the transport, workout deals
with at and how to get people from all over
Tommikamakodo there because at the moment, if you're way out

(03:33):
in the depths of West Auckland, got to catch eight
hundred trains. If you're lucky, you might get there. Same
with the North of Auckland. So this being I believe,
something that needs to be approached by Auckland EFC saying
how can we make this work? Because it's the best
stadium as far as viewing this consent. It's a rectangular stadium.
Plus it's got a little bar out there there. You go,
Oh good, They'll make more little bars, trust me, they'll be.

(03:54):
It's a rectangular stadium that you can see the energy
in that place when it's full is extraordinary. So this
is this is great news where it goes to what
five years whether they decided to build another one, because
you remember Bill Foley join me on sports Talk, the
guy who owns all this saying, you know, we want
to water front, we want a waterfront one. We're gonna
get it going down, and like if you ever dealt
with Auckland Stadium before, Auckland Council before and he says, look,

(04:17):
I'm gonna get things done kind of guy. I said, Okay,
we'll just hold that space and see what happened. So
hopefully so that's where they're going to be. So that's
great news.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Thanks Darcy, appreciate it. Darcy water Grave, SportsTalk Coast. You'll
be back at seven this evening.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Nice turtleneck.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
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