Beaten By The Whale
About some Bollocky Sports News
There She Blows is the headline and you'll find a whale colliding with the Americas cup yacht from South Africa called Shosholoza RSA 48.
The SA Shosholoza yacht crew found out the hard way we ain't meant to be on the high seas. I like the sea though, so i'm not being touchy. Just stating a fact.
Team Shosholoza is the first African challenge for the America's Cup - The next America's Cup will be held in 2007 in Valencia, Spain.
Sport Hurts. Usually it's the animals that get hammered such as the fox's or fish and indeed sometimes whales. This time the tables were turned. Or indeed, the "tide had turned" in favour of the Southern Right Whale
Some of the crew were injured but not seriously. Charles Nankin was flung overboard by the impact and was picked up by the yachts team chase boat.
