Inside Ben Ainslie's sustainable America's Cup challenge

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Olympic sailor says sports teams must step up to the plate on green messages as he plots the return of the Auld Mug from his low-carbon HQ

Sir Ben Ainslie is bidding to bring the America's Cup back to the UK for the first time since the inaugural competition in 1851. But along with building a boat and a team - Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) - to...

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