HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) When the post-race formalities ended, feisty Emirates Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton picked up the America’s Cup and carried it the few hundred yards to the team base.
Dalton, 59, seemed to struggle at first with the weight of the big silver trophy.
Perhaps it was a metaphor for what’s ahead for the scrappy Kiwis, who nearly folded after their nightmarish collapse in 2013 but rebounded to yank the oldest trophy in international sports from tech tycoon Larry Ellison’s Oracle Team USA.
First, there was a blowout party at the team compound Monday evening.