FILE PHOTO: Sailing - America's Cup Finals - Race four - Hamilton, Bermuda - June 18, 2017 - Emirates Team New Zealand helmsman Peter Burling after win in race four against Oracle Team USA in America's Cup Finals. REUTERS/Mike Segar
HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) - Opposites both on and off the water, New Zealand helmsman Peter Burling and U.S. skipper Jimmy Spithill are set for a showdown which could see the Kiwi pretender wrest the America's Cup from his rival.
Burling, who at 26 has been the youngest helmsman in the 35th America's Cup, is the epitome of understatement and outwardly unruffled by going 3-0 up against the U.S. holders in the first phase of the first-to-seven final last weekend.
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