Tom Slingsby and his Australian crew clinched this season's SailGP Championship in San Francisco Bay on Sunday, notching up their third straight win and with it another $1 million prize.A dominant Australia held off a last-minute surge from runner-up Peter Burling's New Zealand in the three-boat final, wi
Tom Slingsby and his Australian crew clinched this season's SailGP Championship in San Francisco Bay on Sunday, notching up their third straight win and with it another $1 million prize.
"We got ourselves right back in there at the end, we dug deep, we didn't give up and we kept fighting, and I'm gutted to not pull it off, but you have to hand it to the Aussies, they are incredible," Burling said. "We had the three best teams out there and everyone got to witness an amazing race and I think that's better for our sport as a whole – we're going to create new interest, more spectators and fans and that's a good thing," Slingsby said.
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