Kiwis pay penalty

A costly penalty for contact in race five against the Swiss dashed New Zealand’s hopes of a podium finish in the latest round of SailGP action in Dubai. Australia scraped through to the final and won the event after climbing their way back from second-to-last. New Zealand remain second on the season leaderboard, but are now nine points behind Australia and one point ahead of France, who finished second in Dubai. The Kiwis had earlier taken out race four with Great Britain second and France third.