Ebook: Chasing the cup: my America's Cup journey
Author: Mundle Rob, Spithill Jimmy
- Tags: Autobiography: sport, Biography & Autobiography--Sports, Sailing, Sailors, Sailors--Australia, Sports & Recreation--Sailing, Yacht racing, Biographies, Biography, Spithill Jimmy -- 1979-, Sailors -- Australia -- Biography, Sports & Recreation -- Sailing, Biography & Autobiography -- Sports, Australia
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- City: Australia;San Francisco;Calif
- Language: English
- epub
If Ben Ainslie manages to win the right to compete for the America's Cup in 2017, Jimmy Spithill is the man he'll be up against.
Jimmy is the world's most successful racing skipper, and at 37 has already reached legendary status. In 2013 he led Oracle Team USA to victory against New Zealand against massive odds, recovering from 1-8 to win 9-8 (the Wall Street Journal called it 'one of the greatest comebacks in sports history'), and is the skipper for Oracle's upcoming 2017 America's Cup defence as well.
This is his autobiography, and it opens with a young Jimmy in hospital about to have surgery on his leg, being told by the doctors he'll never be much good at sport. This sparks a life-long determination to prove them wrong. He won his first race aged 10, and using a credit card to pay for travel he went on winning races all over the country, and then the world. He debuted in the America's Cup as a skipper at age 20, and after a tough legal battle to...