Can the America’s Cup be New Zealand’s Cup once more, asks Dana Johannsen. It's not just that phenomenal, but brutal, ending to the 34th America's Cup that is burned into the national psyche. This year's America's Cup promises to be faster, flashier and crashier than ever before. Yes, if the national conversation could be distilled into one imaginary voice, it would go a little something like:"The America's Cup? That red socks have come to be a symbol of Team NZ's America's Cup campaigns is probably fitting.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 19, 2017 14:07 UTC