Olympic sailing champion and America's Cup broadcaster Shirley Robertson (left, with mask) interviews Team NZ skipper Peter Burling after day one of the Cup match. Shirley Robertson, America’s Cup broadcasterIf she’d had the chance, would double Olympic gold medallist Shirley Robertson have sailed in the America’s Cup? “As long as boats are out there, we’ll keep talking about them.”Jo Coleman, senior project manager America’s Cup, for Auckland UnlimitedSupplied/Newsroom Jo Coleman. Yet nothing could have prepared Jo Coleman for a global pandemic and a tsunami evacuation during an America's Cup. “ACE [America’s Cup Events] deliver the on-water and on-land events, and we make sure the city continues to function with a major event happening right through the middle of it, but also gets the most out of the America’s Cup,” she says.

Source: Stuff March 11, 2021 20:03 UTC