Sailing: Historic Swedish America’s Cup team fourth after the first qualifying day: “Very nice”

The team got off to a good start and won the first sailing in Barcelona.

– It started very nicely with a port that just exploded with fans from all nations. It was a powerful feeling, says Julia Gross to SVT Sport from the port in Barcelona.

Sweden sails the basic round in Pool B against Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany.

Tomorrow, Monday 7 October, the preliminary round continues for the Swedes, and it is now a matter of securing a top three position in the group in order to advance to the semi-finals, which will be sailed on Friday 11 October

The final will be sailed on October 13 between the two best teams from round 2.

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