Sailing: Britain's challengers dig deep to rescue day

With the wick turned full up, two more sets of races brought mixed feelings for Britain's challenge for the America's Cup.

The morning was bitter for the GBR Challenge as the team they most wanted to beat in order to give themselves increased leverage for the quarter-final pairings, Victory Challenge of Sweden, just powered away from them. The skipper Ian Walker is used to keeping his opponents under pressure, but this time there were few opportunities, and an overnight change to the boat's configuration left it unable to match the height and speed.

It was in the second race of the day, against Le Defi Areva, that the British were able to dig deep again and come back from being behind at the half-way mark, exploit some frail French boat handling and tactics and win by 14 seconds.

All is now finely poised for a completion of the second round robin – weather permitting – tomorrow. The British will know who their quarter-final opponents will be, and the feverish work to prepare a boat for that best-of-seven pairing will begin.