By Suzanne McFadden on Newsroom…
Olympic gold medallist Jo Aleh has always been ahead of the wave in women’s sailing, but now she’s finally riding the crest of it. Part 4 in Newsroom’s series on the Kiwi women sailing for Team NZ.
It’s the 38th birthday present Jo Aleh never expected to receive.
Last Monday, Aleh and her sailing partner, Molly Meech, flew home to Auckland from Marseille, where they’d been training for their Paris Olympics campaign in the 49erFX.
Within a couple of hours of touching down, they were out on the Hauraki Gulf, getting acquainted with Emirates Team New Zealand’s AC40 for the first time. They stayed on the water well after it turned dark.
They’d leapt straight from the frying pan and into the fire of an America’s Cup campaign.
On the bleak autumn day she turned 38 last week, Aleh found a dry spot to chat beneath Taihoro, the new AC75 foiling monohull, in Team NZ’s shed.
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