{"id":283194,"date":"2026-02-14T02:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283194\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:53:09","slug":"new-zealand-sailgp-live-updates-day-one-off-aucklands-wynyard-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283194\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand SailGP live updates: Day one off Auckland&#8217;s Wynyard Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SailGP professional sailing league returns to the &#8216;City of Sails&#8217; for the second event of the 2026 series, performing in front of an expanded Wynyard Point grandstand.<\/p>\n<p>Can New Zealand bounce back from last year&#8217;s disappointment and a hectic few weeks of repairs to their boat, or will the Aussies retain bragging rights on the Waitemat\u0101 Harbour?<\/p>\n<p>Follow all the action with RNZ&#8217;s live blog:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4KDDL6N_MCG_0411_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"623\" alt=\"The Black Foils helmed by Peter Burling cross the finish line during Race 4 on Race Day 1 of The Rolex SailGP 2025 Championship.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFans celebrate a Black Foils win from the Wynyard Point grandstand.<br \/>\nPhoto: Iain McGregor for SailGP\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SailGP professional sailing league returns to the &#8216;City of Sails&#8217; for the second event of the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-283194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}