Audi MedCup: TeamOrigin end on a high note in Sardinia

9:13 AM Mon 27 Sep 2010 GMT

'TeamOrigin fires up against Quantum Racing on the final day of the Audi MedCup 2010' Ian Roman/TEAMORIGIN

The notorious Mistral blew the Audi MedCup off its Sardinian track on Saturday, but not before a boisterous finale saw Britain's Team Origin bring the curtain down on a high note and Emirates Team New Zealand, with back-to-back championship wins, confirm its place as the world's top sailing outfit. Ben Ainslie steered Origin into the lead of the only race of the day, the boat revelling in the downhill sleigh rides as the wind, never below 23 knots, gusted to just below gale force. At the finish they had to concede to the Franco-German All4One and were ...

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by Stuart Alexander. The Independent