While women have competed in the event in the past, including one famous all-female crew, the sport has been dominated by men until now.
WATCH: Concord Pacific Racing Team Canada Captain Isabella Bertold explains what it means to her to be racing in the very first women's America's Cup sailing competition.holds its first-ever standalone women’s race in Barcelona next fall, Canada will be there and so will Isabella Bertold.
“Of course, you can’t get experience if you don’t have access to it. And this is really creating that pathway and that access pipeline.”The America’s Cup is the world’s oldest international competition still operating in any sport. The top sailing crews in the world battle head-to-head in multi-million-dollar yachts, often at breakneck speed.While women have competed in the event in the past, including one all-female crew, the sport has been dominated by men until now.
Isabella Bertold has been sailing since she was five years old, but said even after competing in the Olympics she didn’t see a path to professional racing. That’s now changed.Concord Pacific, RBC and Telus announced their sponsorship of Canada’s team for the Puig Women’s America’s Cup and UniCredit Youth America’s Cup on Wednesday.
“I am just so excited to see Canada on the world stage because we are too often too modest, too humble, and we are in this to win.”Bertold says she’s in it to win it as well, but said victory for her goes beyond taking home the trophy: it’s also about pushing equality in sport forward.
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