America’s Cup

On Saturday, Emirates Team New Zealand won the America’s Cup for the third time in a row, beating the INEOS Britannia challengers 7-2 in the final race series. Two days earlier, the British dream of a “Miracle on the Med,” which would’ve brought the Cup back to England for the first time since 1851, seemed like a real underdog possibility, given the U.K. team won two successive races to bring the series to 4-2.

But it was not to be. The Kiwis won two more races on Friday and clinched a tight race for an historic three-peat on Saturday, arriving across the finish line 37 seconds ahead of INEOS. The black-clad team aboard New Zealand’s foiling raceboat sprayed each other with Moet and later doused the America’s Cup itself in bubbly while thousands of Kiwi fans, who had traveled around the world to watch the finals, cheered in celebration.