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TEAMORIGIN in action - Source: ONE Sport -
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Sir Keith Mills, the UK businessman who was knighted after
leading London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics, is the
founder of Britain's TeamOrigin.
TeamOrigin competed at Auckland's Louis Vuitton Pacific Series in
January and has annouced it intends to compete at all of the Louis
Vuitton regattas over the next 12 months
TeamOrigin, skippered by three-times Olympic gold medallist Ben
Ainslie with two-times Olympic gold medallist Iain Percy as
tactician and managed by round the world winning yachtsman Mike
Sanderson, will also provide their training boat GBR-75 for the
Nice event.
When looking at our teams future sailing programme we knew we wanted to compete in events that would give all parts of our team and not just the sailing team, further hands-on operational experience, said Sir Keith Mills, Team Principal.
Having sailed in the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series earlier this
year we quickly realised the concept of the WSTAs Louis Vuitton
regatta projects completely fit the bill for our team and so we
knew we had
to be there.
The Royal Thames is the oldest royal yacht club in Britain and was
the first club to challenge for the America's Cup back in 1870.
