{"id":67230,"date":"2024-10-14T08:18:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T23:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/14\/americas-cup-2024-new-zealand-maori-waka-canoe-haka"},"modified":"2024-10-14T08:18:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T23:18:38","slug":"were-a-powerhouse-the-maori-canoe-and-haka-leading-new-zealand-into-americas-cup-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67230","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re a powerhouse\u2019: the M\u0101ori canoe and haka leading New Zealand into America\u2019s Cup battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As New Zealand goes head to head with the old colonial power, Great Britain, a waka is leading the team out of Barcelona harbour<\/p>\n<p>As New Zealand goes head to head with Great Britain in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/oct\/08\/weve-got-nothing-to-lose-ruthless-ainslie-ready-to-take-on-all-blacks-of-sailing\">defence of the America\u2019s Cup<\/a>, the Kiwis have a secret weapon, a M\u0101ori waka (canoe) that will lead them into the contest.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/oct\/13\/new-zealand-take-3-0-americas-cup-lead-after-britain-hit-with-penalty\">race began on 12 October and is due to end a week later<\/a>. Each race day, the waka will lead Team New Zealand out of Barcelona harbour as a \u201cM\u0101ori guard of honour\u201d, says Graham Tipene, coordinator of the waka that is crewed almost entirely by members of the Ng\u0101ti Wh\u0101tua \u014cr\u0101kei iwi (tribe).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/14\/americas-cup-2024-new-zealand-maori-waka-canoe-haka\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As New Zealand goes head to head with the old colonial power, Great Britain, a waka is leading the team out of Barcelona harbourAs New Zealand goes head to head with Great Britain in its defence of the America\u2019s Cup, the Kiwis have a secret weapon, a M&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,41,897,56,1109,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-sailing","category-sport"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67231,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67230\/revisions\/67231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}