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Argo Group Gold Cup Preview
[Written by Talbot Wilson] Because of the twenty-four team format of the Argo Group Gold Cup, winning every race in the qualifying round-robin is of utmost importance. Only eight teams make the Quarter-Finals. Since there are eight teams in each of the three groups, one or two losses and even a top ranked World Match Racing Tour skipper can be thrown... Read more of this article
Tourism To Sponsor Four Sporting Events
Minister of Business Development & Tourism Patrice Minors today [Aug.4] announced that Government will contribute a total of $270,000 toward four international sporting events to be held this year in a bid to boost Bermuda’s tourism. Tournaments from four different genres – sailing, running, triathlon, rugby – will receive sponsorship.... Read more of this article
Ben Ainslie Invited Back: 2011 Argo Gold Cup
[Written by Talbot Wilson] Can Ben Ainslie, invited this year as a non-Tour Card skipper and winner of the last two Argo Group Gold Cup regattas, make it a hat trick? The two-in-a-row Gold Cup winner from Great Britain, who is targeting his fifth Olympic medal in 2012, has been invited back to to Bermuda to defend his title in the 2011 Argo Group Gold... Read more of this article
Photos: 2010 Sailing Argo Group Gold Cup
The best of the best descended on Bermuda for the 2010 Argo Group Gold Cup, with Great Britain’s Ben Ainslie, a four-time Olympic medalist, winning the Argo Group Gold Cup and the $50,000 cash prize for the second year in a row. Mr. Ainslie is the second skipper to win the King Edward VII Gold Cup Trophy two successive years since the event was... Read more of this article
Ben Ainslie Wins Argo Gold Cup $50,000 Prize
[Written by Talbot Wilson] Ben Ainslie, Great Britain’s four-time Olympic medalist and the fifth ranked skipper on the World Match Racing Tour, won the Argo Group Gold Cup and the $50,000 cash prize for the second year in a row. He and his TeamOrigin crew defeated Denmark’s Jesper Radich 3-1. Ainslie used classic match racing tactics to continually... Read more of this article
Sailing: Ainslie & Radich In Argo Cup Finals
[WMRT News] The stage is all set for a fitting finale to the eighth stage of the 2010 World Match Racing Tour, with Ben Ainslie (GBR) TEAMORIGIN and Jesper Radich (DEN) Gaastra Racing Team set to go head-to-head in a repeat of the final of the Stena Match Cup Sweden earlier in the 2010 World Match Racing Tour. Both skippers stormed to victory in their... Read more of this article
Argo Gold Cup Day 1: Six Skippers Unbeaten
[Written by Talbot Wilson] French sailor Mathieu Richard did not have a good Tuesday Oct 5 in Bermuda. In the first three flights of the Stage 1 qualifying round-robin races in Bermuda’s Argo Group Gold Cup, Richard’s French Match Racing Team, the current leader on the World Match Racing Tour, suffered two critical losses. Six skippers remain unbeaten... Read more of this article
Gold Cup: Strong Start For Lucy Macgregor
[WMRT News] Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team was put to the sword by reigning Women’s Match Racing World Champion, Lucy Macgregor (GBR) Match Race Girls on day one of Qualifying at the Argo Group Gold Cup in Bermuda. The added grit of the lesser known teams who also attacked Richard on the front foot means the current Championship leader... Read more of this article
Groups Announced for Argo Group Gold Cup
[Written by Talbot Wilson] The match is on! The top three sailors on the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) head up three groups for the qualifying ‘round robin’ competition in the Argo Group Gold Cup. Group 1 top seed is #1 ranked Mathieu Richard (FRA) of the French Match Racing Team. In the #2 slot on the Tour, Adam Minoprio (NZL) Black Match Racing... Read more of this article
Battle for World Match Racing Tour Champs
(WMRT/Argo Group Gold Cup News) The world’s leading sailors will be fighting for precious points at The Argo Group Gold Cup in Bermuda, with next week’s match race representing the last chance saloon for skippers to move up the leaderboard ahead of the the ISAF World Match Racing Tour’s season ending finale – The Monsoon Cup in December.... Read more of this article
Showdown Looms in Argo Group Gold Cup
[Written by Talbot Wilson] Twenty-four teams representing fourteen countries match up in this classic battle October 5-10 in Hamilton, Bermuda. Five winners of the King Edward VII Gold Cup from 2006-2009… Ian Williams (GBR), Mathieu Richard (FRA) Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Ben Ainslie (GBR) and the 2002 winner Jesper Radich (DEN) return to Bermuda for... Read more of this article
