dunedin
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SailGP have won one of the new Green Sport awards - a rare recognition of sailing as a sport BBC names inaugural Green Sport Award winners
Sail GP win Green Sport award
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I take it they ignored the amount of lorry traffic and crane work setting up the 'village' in Plymouth. Followed by the decamping and moving to the next location. I am quite sure not even the competitors sail between locations.
Stemar
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No top flight sport is going to be very green - or even sustainable from an eco PoV. What's the least green? F1? Rallying? Premier league footie?
Here's a thought, though. A sailing championship, but everything to be from renewable sources or recycled stuff.
Carbon fibre would be allowed, but not the current resins to glue it together. Now that's something I'd follow, just to see the ingenious ways people can put a boat together. Wood? Ally from coke cans? OK, but the welding rods need to be made of recycled materials, and the flux from renewable sources
Here's a thought, though. A sailing championship, but everything to be from renewable sources or recycled stuff.
Carbon fibre would be allowed, but not the current resins to glue it together. Now that's something I'd follow, just to see the ingenious ways people can put a boat together. Wood? Ally from coke cans? OK, but the welding rods need to be made of recycled materials, and the flux from renewable sources
dunedin
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Yes, any international sport that moves around the globe is likely to only very marginally “green” at best - unless the competitors and all the kit sailed between venues rather than used aircraft etc. (Perhaps the Vendee Globe should have won the award)
But it was interesting that sailing was at least noticed amongst the hundreds of other higher profile sports.