18 Feb 2021

Spat breaks out over America's Cup races

From Checkpoint, 5:30 pm on 18 February 2021

A spat's broken out between challengers for the America's Cup over when to return to the water following Auckland's level 3 lockdown.

The organisers, America's Cup Events, wanted to postpone racing until the city returned to alert level 1.

But after pushback from Challengers of Record, Luna Rossa - they back-pedalled, proposing racing in the best-of-13 series start again on Saturday.

And after much back and forth today - Luna Rossa - who are 4-nil up over Team UK - have finally agreed to the terms.

America's Cup reporter Felicity Reid has more.