When did sailors start wearing helmets?
If you haven’t been watching the America’s Cup – and odds are you haven’t – then you’ve missed the transformation of a stodgy old race into an X Game.
Yes, the America’s Cup – to be decided on Wednesday in a final, winner-take all race between the United States and New Zealand – has become an extreme sport, complete with breakneck speeds (on water anyway), whip-fast turns and danger, so much so that one sailor has already died … More