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SailGP season opener serves and frustrates in equal measure by Mark Jardine 26 Apr 11:07 BST 24-25 April 2021
Firstly, I take my hat off to the logistics team at SailGP that the event happened at all. With a Covid lockdown in Bermuda and the general difficulties in travel, getting eight international teams and the paraphernalia to a small island in the North Atlantic was no mean feat.
If that wasn t complex enough, the production, commentary and umpiring team were in London. All the data had to be transmitted in near real-time to and fro between the two locations. This did of course result in delays during post-race Q&As with the skippers, but it worked. With a split commentary team there were the inevitable pauses and points of talking over each other, but as we all know with Zoom calls, these are pretty much unavoidable.