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Ben Ainslie is bidding to animate a archetypal British triumph successful the 173-year past of the America’s Cup.

It is 60 years since a British vessel adjacent raced for the America’s Cup, which is 1 of the world’s oldest surviving sporting competitions and began connected the waters astir the Isle of Wight successful 1851.

Ineos Britannia made the worst imaginable commencement to their situation against Emirates New Zealand connected Saturday aft going down 2-0 down successful the best-of-13 bid aft the archetypal time of racing.

Their skipper Ainslie and his squad request to find a mode to drawback up erstwhile racing resumes connected Sunday.

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The America’s Cup began successful 1851 and sees 2 teams quadrate disconnected successful a best-of-13 format. A squad wins the contention erstwhile they scope 7 victories.

Every contention is divided into six legs. The 2 teams contention upwind connected the opening limb earlier sailing downwind connected the second, repeating that process until each six legs are complete. The squad who person won the astir legs volition assertion a constituent towards their people of seven.

The waters of Port Olimpic successful Barcelona big this year’s America’s Cup. It is simply a 3.2km people and boasts indispensable enactment wrong a 0.9km width restriction. A punishment is issued to a squad that goes excessively far.

(Races scheduled for 1pm BST and taxable to upwind conditions)

Saturday, October 12: Race 1 (New Zealand win), Race 2 (New Zealand win)

Sunday, October 13: Race 3, Race 4

Monday, October 14: Reserve time if required

Tuesday, October 15: No racing scheduled

Wednesday, October 16: Race 5, Race 6

Thursday, October 17: Reserve time if required

Friday, October 18: Race 7, Race 8 if required

Saturday, October 19: Race 9 if required, Race 10 if required

Sunday, October 20: Race 11 if required, Race 12 if required

Monday, October 21: Race 13 if required

Tuesday, October 22 –Sunday, October 27: Reserve days if required

TV channel: In the UK, the contention volition beryllium shown connected TNT Sports .

Live stream: Subscribers to TNT Sports volition beryllium capable to ticker via the Discovery+ app. The BBC volition besides watercourse the races lines connected iPlayer aft reaching an 11th-hour statement with America’s Cup organisers.