Swiss celebrate America’s Cup win

YACHTING: Alinghi won the America’s Cup with a crushing 5-0 clean sweep of Team New Zealand yesterday completing an “impossible” quest to take sport’s oldest trophy to Europe for the first time.

With equipment failures again dogging Team New Zealand’s campaign, the Swiss yacht crossed the line 45 seconds ahead of the Kiwis to win race five in the best-of-nine finals series.

Team New Zealand trailed Alinghi throughout and any hope of closing the gap were dashed when a spinnaker pole broke shortly after the half-way mark.