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Jasper Bruce

More SailGP crashes, injuries inevitable: Tom Slingsby

Black Foils SailGP Team and SailGP Team France collide during racing in the Auckland leg. (HANDOUT/)

Tom Slingsby says more crashes and injuries are inevitable for SailGP following a horror collision in Auckland, but does not expect they'll come at the high-speed sailing league's Sydney regatta.

Organisers are considering fitting the SailGP fleet with airbags and kevlar safety straps after New Zealand grinder Louis Sinclair broke both his legs and France's Manon Audinet spent two weeks in hospital with a chest injury when their catamarans crashed at this month's Auckland event.

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