America's Cup: NZL Sailing Team get to sail the AC45



9:17 AM Fri 18 Feb 2011 GMT
New Zealand?s young Olympic medal hopefuls from the NZL Sailing Team, the Yachting equivalent of the All Blacks, were given a chance to experience the ?next step? in their sailing careers when they spent the afternoon sailing the AC45. For Jo Aleh, Olivia Powrie, Peter Burling and Blair Tuke it was second-time lucky after sailing was cancelled earlier in the week due to lack of breeze. Peter and Blair, who on a normal day are training for London 2012 in the 49er, are both pretty excited about the possibilities of taking the step up to the Youth America?s Cup in ...


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by Hannah Davis





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