
SailGP’s tagline, “Powered By Nature”, says plenty about both its practicalities and its philosophies, but walking away from its grand final last weekend, one couldn’t help but feel “Beholden To” might have told just as much of the story.
After all, how many other sports have ever had their season climax, a $1million winner-take-all race no less, delayed because of the presence on the course of a whale?