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Richard Gladwell: Sail World NZ Editor ahead of the America's Cup race against Ineos Britannia · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Sunday marks the start of a big week ahead of
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  Speaker 1: Emirates Team New Zealand as they face any Espritannia in
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  Speaker 1: the race to retain the America's Cup. Thirteen races first
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  Speaker 1: to seven whens. Whether plays ball first should be Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 1: very early our time. Richard Gladwell is the Sale Sale
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  Speaker 1: World end Z editor. He's with us this morning. Good morning, Richard,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very well. Thank you. Are you feeling confident?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean, I think the thing with the
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  Speaker 2: Cup is it's it's always the defenders to lose. So
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  Speaker 2: the defender has already got to screw something up to
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  Speaker 2: lose it. But I think you know, when you look
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  Speaker 2: back at it, they haven't had a lot of racing
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  Speaker 2: against any ofs. But yeah, I mean a team Zell
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  Speaker 2: Rook sharp and they should should be able to do it.
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  Speaker 2: They've always had a design each over the other guys,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just all part and parcel of the that
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  Speaker 2: the defender does have. People look at that racing and
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  Speaker 2: think it was already close in the Challenges series, but
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  Speaker 2: the point they forget is that tem Zilms have another
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  Speaker 2: three months of development on top of those guys, So
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can certainly do a lot in there.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think this is going to be a
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  Speaker 2: speed contest. I don't think there's you know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: race that's going to be won by super boat. But
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  Speaker 2: I think they will have just that little little edge.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask about speed. Should we be
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  Speaker 1: worried that they didn't race at the top end speeds
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  Speaker 1: and so far in Barcelona.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's going to work against the British,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, because most of their racing was in
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  Speaker 2: strong winds and the forecast for the weekend of Monday
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  Speaker 2: is pretty light. Winds will certainly have a lighter end
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  Speaker 2: of the lighter end of the scale. So yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: helps us. I think you're just yeah, it's just it's
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  Speaker 2: very to read, and I mean everyone gets super nervous
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  Speaker 2: about it and and all that sort of thing with
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  Speaker 2: these races are very tight. I mean the legs are
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  Speaker 2: only about three and a half minutes long. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's all over very quickly. O're extending about to eight
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  Speaker 2: legs to get to their target time, which is about
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  Speaker 2: twenty six minutes. But you know, you do see a
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  Speaker 2: lot go on there.
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  Speaker 1: Do do you think, do you think many people will watched, Richard.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the timing is terrible for here in
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand, but.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, and I think it's that is
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  Speaker 2: really bad for New Zealand because you know, you hear
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  Speaker 2: people now they won't get up and look at it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, midnight or one in the morning. And the
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  Speaker 2: other problem they've got over there, particularly when you like
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  Speaker 2: it's just I mean, I've been up working all night.
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  Speaker 2: But the women there, they started they try having one
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  Speaker 2: race at twelve o'clock their time, which is one o'clock
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  Speaker 2: in the morning time. That got wiped out with these
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  Speaker 2: terrible cross seas that were there, so everyone was falling
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  Speaker 2: off foils and they stayed around for another three hours
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  Speaker 2: after that and then it gave it away.
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  Speaker 1: See that's the thing, Richard. If you're getting up to
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  Speaker 1: watch and then you're waiting, waiting, waiting while everyone's falling over,
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  Speaker 1: you may not stay up too late. Richard, thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much for your time. Great to have you on
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  Speaker 1: the show. As always, Richard Gladwell's Sale World New Zealand editor.
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