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America s Cup: Team NZ bounce back in style as battle for Auld Mug hangs in balance

Luna Rossa have sailing problem as Team NZ wins race 4 and levels series. For a brief moment on Friday afternoon the America’s Cup hopes of Peter Burling and Team New Zealand threatened to flutter away in the light breeze from the north. At 2-1 down in the first-to-7 contest for the Auld Mug, entering the final of two races on a glistening summer’s day in the Hauraki Gulf off Auckland, prospects looked ever so ominous for the cup defenders after they had just been clinically dismantled by the razor-sharp Italian entry, Luna Rossa. But Burling and his staunch crew aboard Te Rehutai never panicked. They never blinked. Even as the pressure must have threatened to suffocate them.

America s Cup: It s a deadlock as Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa share early honours

Fiona Goodall/Getty Images Luna Rossa skipper Jimmy Spithill is happy after the Italians levelled the America’s Cup match 1-1 on Wednesday. Folks, we have ourselves a yacht race, with the America’s Cup final poised tantalisingly at 1-1 after an intriguing opening day of ‘The Match’ in Auckland s Hauraki Gulf on Wednesday. Peter Burling and Team New Zealand had drawn first blood with a commanding 31-second victory in the opening race, but any prospect of another one-sided matchup in this 36th edition of sport’s oldest international competition was slam-dunked in race two when Luna Rossa turned the tables brilliantly to eke out a thrilling 7-second win to level the first-to-7 series at 1-1.

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