Sporting history may be full of great comeback stories, but the 2013 America’s Cup will forever take some beating.
Oracle Team USA were 8-1 down against a dominant Emirates Team New Zealand team who needed only one more win to lift the Auld Mug and put the Americans out of their misery. In a last-gasp move to change things up, Ben Ainslie was brought in by CEO Russell Coutts to join skipper Jimmy Spithill on board. Incredibly, the momentum turned and the team reeled off eight straight wins to pull off the most remarkable turnaround.
In a special live episode of Performance People filmed in Portsmouth on board HMS Warrior during the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix weekend, all three key protagonists from Team USA - Ben, Jimmy and Russell - join host Georgie Ainslie to take us back to that time when the world was glued to events in San Francisco Bay.
The panel recall how the team found themselves so far behind, describe the tensions inside the camp, explain why Ben was asked to join the crew, reveal the details that helped shift the momentum, articulate what it felt like to be part of this astonishing sporting drama and why that Cup sparked the inspiration for the performance sailing circuit founded by Russell Coutts, SailGP.
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