A team of women will be setting sail for the America’s Cup in Barcelona this weekend. It marks the first time women have been able to compete in the 173-year-old sailing competition.
Team Canada’s crew will be led by Vancouver’s Isabella Bertold, who says it will be transformative for the sport.
“We see so many young girls dropping out of sports before they even turn 18,” she told CTV News.
“A big part of that is they just don’t see their role models on TV the same way that male athletes do,” she continued.
Bertold and her team are already in Spain preparing for their event, one she says has been a long time coming.
“We’ve been training for this for two years now, it feels odd to train for such a long time just for one race, so the fact that were just a few days away from that …