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Ryan Bridge: Missing out on the America's Cup isn't the end of the world · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Bonj. Italia is going to host the thirty eighth America's
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  Speaker 1: Cup in summer twenty twenty seven, at least that's when
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  Speaker 1: they think it will happen. The old mug again heading
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  Speaker 1: to European waters the first time. The Italians will play hosts.
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  Speaker 1: They've had the World Series before, but never the big
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  Speaker 1: one before. So it'll be Mount Vesuvius in the background,
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  Speaker 1: not Rangetoto. It'll be pizza in the balleys of fans,
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  Speaker 1: not fish and chips. Auckland missed out, which we already knew.
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  Speaker 1: Athens missed out. Georgia Maloney very excited, Luna Rossa obviously pumped.
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  Speaker 1: But the question for you this morning, do you wake
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  Speaker 1: up feeling jealous? Is there a pit of disappointment in
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  Speaker 1: your stomach? Do we lambasted our measly stingy government for
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  Speaker 1: not prioritizing a sailing race. My feelings, well, it's nice
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  Speaker 1: that they have somewhere to sail, and good luck to them,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel zero fomo. We were on the hook
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  Speaker 1: for tens of millions of dollars. Waigno hasn't got his
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  Speaker 1: bed tax yet. Politically, it was the right call to
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  Speaker 1: imagine with this announcement coming a week out from budget day.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine the outcry from the unions and the opposition and
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  Speaker 1: the media. You're spending how much money on men sailing
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  Speaker 1: around the harbor while cutting women's pay. Can you just
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  Speaker 1: imagine that. Plus when we debated all of this a
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  Speaker 1: few months back, we didn't know at that point that
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  Speaker 1: Dalton was quietly walking away from contract negotiations with Peter Burling,
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  Speaker 1: So we would have spent millions on a race for
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  Speaker 1: a boat with an Aussie at the helm, not our
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  Speaker 1: beloved Burling. Not that that matters. That is fine, we've
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  Speaker 1: had one before in glen Ashby, but there's no doubt
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  Speaker 1: the preference was for Burling to continue. Grant Dalton told
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  Speaker 1: me that at the time. But there's a bigger point here.
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  Speaker 1: When times are tough, when the kitty's running low, you
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  Speaker 1: can't afford the nice to haves. For Team New Zealand,
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  Speaker 1: that was Burling. For us, it was the competition itself.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're worried that Dalton has regrets about Auckland
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  Speaker 1: failing to get a look in, take a look at
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  Speaker 1: the press release for today's announcement come out overnight. He says,
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  Speaker 1: Italians not us Kiwis. Italians are quote the most passionate
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  Speaker 1: and engaged America's Cup audience in the world. This city
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  Speaker 1: is the best option for growing global audiences. It's a
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  Speaker 1: summer in Europe, so if you're a sailing mad person
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  Speaker 1: then it might be time to book some flights little
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  Speaker 1: midwinter getaway. Some difficult captains calls have to be made
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  Speaker 1: and have been made, but for us and for Team
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand, it sounds like they were the necessary ones,
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  Speaker 1: and the necessary choices are pretty much always the right ones.
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