Inside America's Cup
Welcome to the official podcast of the Louis Vuitton 38th America's Cup as we go under the surface of one of the most competitive and secretive sports events in the world, and explain the decisions, technology and pressures that separate winning from losing. This is your authoritative access-all-areas companion to all things America's Cup, the pinnacle of performance sailing for 175 years.
Episodes
These Are Technical Secrets America's Cup Teams Can't Share
What will actually decide winners and losers in America's Cup design? A technical deep dive with a designer who's free to say what the teams can't.Juan Kouyoumdjian is one of the world's top authorities on yacht design. He's spent 30 years designing winning round-the-world boats and working on America's Cup projects. Right now he isn't attached to a Cup team, so for onc
Will AI decide the America's Cup?
What exactly is AI doing in sailing, and is it already taking over from the sailors? We reveal how AI is being used right now by America's Cup teams to design faster and more efficient boats, and how it could even be onboard during racing. Nick Holroyd is the Head of Design at the British America's Cup challenge GB1, and he gives us an inside look at how this transformative technology is a
When will a Woman helm an America's Cup AC75?
For 175 years, the America's Cup was a men's sport. Now, for the first time in history, every AC75 MUST carry a woman on board. But there's one final frontier: the helm.The AC75 has no grinders, no cyclors, no physical barrier left to hide behind. So why hasn't a woman helmed one yet?We speak to Jo Aleh - the first woman ever to sail an AC75 - Hannah Mills, Odile van Aanholt, and N
"Can we pull this thing off?" The New American Challengers | Inside Americas Cup Talks
AC38 finally has a US team. American Racing Challenger, led by sailing legend Ken Read and sports investor Chris Welch, enters the race late, without an AC75 in the water and with the odds stacked against them. But they have a plan. Niall Myant-Best sits down with both men to find out how this team came together, what the America's Cup Partnership changes for challengers like them, and whether
“It’s Daunting!” Tom Slingsby reveals Australian challenge | Inside Americas Cup Talks
Australia is back to challenge for the America's Cup and sailing superstar Tom Slingsby is heading up Team Australia's sailing team. In this exclusive interview Tom tells Niall Myant-Best about the team's startup mentality, growing up on Australian America's Cup history and why experience might just beat youth when it comes to his crew selection.
Something to Prove in Sardinia PR1 | Inside America's Cup Talks
The first shots of the America's Cup campaign are about to be fired. Niall Myant-Best and Magnus Wheatley break down everything you need to know ahead of PR1 in Cagliari, Sardinia - the first time AC38 challengers will race against each other on the water.Eight boats. Five teams. And a format that puts youth and women sailors on the start line alongside the world's best. Magnus has the ins
Are France the Underdogs?
La Roche-Posay Racing Team call themselves underdogs. But is that that really true when you look at what they've built in Lorient? In our latest exclusive access we examine the French Challenger's strategies for wining the Auld Mug and look back at over 50 years of French America's Cup history.France has produced many sailing champions but never an America's Cup winner. Niall Myant
Luna Rossa’s Final Piece
Unprecedented access to Luna Rossa's team base in Cagliari, Sardinia. Luna Rossa have spent nearly three decades and hundreds of millions trying to win the America's Cup. They never stopped between campaigns and have now signed superstar helmsman Peter Burling from their biggest rivals.We go inside the base of the team that has been trying longest and hardest to ask if they finally have ev
Burling to Luna Rossa, Alinghi Back, No Cyclors : The 2027 Teams Assessed | Bonus Content
Niall Myant-Best is joined in the studio by America's Cup historian and journalist Magnus Wheatley and round-the-world yachtswoman and former Youth and Women's America's Cup co-ordinator Abby Ehler - and together they take a hard look at the five teams challenging for the Cup in 2027.With the first preliminary regatta in Cagliari now fast approaching, the race off the water is already
It Started in Naples: The America's Cup Partnership Begins
Welcome to the first episode of the official podcast of the Louis Vuitton 38th America's Cup as we go under the surface of one of the most competitive and secretive sports events in the world, and explain the decisions that separate winning from losing.In this first show our intrepid reporter Niall Myant-Best is dropped into a historic moment at the first meeting of the America's Cup Partn
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