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The World Match Racing Tour card skippers 2021
The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) today announced the six skippers awarded WMRT Tour Cards for the 2021 championship season. Defending match racing world champion Taylor Canfield (USA) leads the line-up alongside six-time world champion Ian Williams (GBR), two-time world champion Phil Robertson (NZL), Eric Monnin (SUI) and first-time tour card skippers Nick Egnot-Johnson (NZL) and Maxime Mesnil (FRA).
The WMRT Tour Cards award skippers with invitations to the world-championship level events on the 2021 WMRT schedule including the Tour’s long standing events – Marstrand Match Cup (SWE), Bermuda Gold Cup BDA), and Long Beach Congressional Cup (USA).
Quick Read By Shafi Musaddique Correspondent
After five years of intense debate, Britain is now finally, fully, out of the European Union. But its departure, when it happened on Jan. 1
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, turned out to be something of an anticlimax.
That’s because the COVID-19 pandemic, and the government’s draconian lockdown response, have knocked everything else off the front pages and out of peoples’ minds. And with the implications of London’s new trade deal with the EU only starting to emerge, it is hard for most voters to judge it yet.
Why We Wrote This
Britain’s most momentous political move for generations took effect this month, but nobody paid much attention. Years of exhausting debate about Brexit, and the COVID-19 crisis, sapped the nation’s interest.
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