“It was really, really tight,” Ainslie said. After spending the first half of the weekend anxiously waiting for a breath of wind, Sir Ben Ainslie’s Land Rover BAR team produced a dramatic finale to the Chicago leg of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series to boost their hopes of challenging for the America’s Cup next year. Ainslie’s team, who won yesterday’s opening race on Lake Michigan, dramatically charged past Emirates Team New Zealand and Artemis, the Swedish team, in the last 100 yards of the final race to grab second place in the regatta behind Artemis.

Source: The Times June 12, 2016 21:33 UTC