Clash of styles

OPPOSITES on and off the water, Team New Zealand helmsman Peter Burling and Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill are set for a showdown today that could see the Kiwi pretender wrest the America’s Cup from his rival. Burling is the epitome of understatement and outwardly unruffled by going 3-0 up against the holders in the first phase of the first-to-seven final. Spithill, known as the ‘pitbull’, is a straight-talking Aussie who constantly chats with his crew.