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100kmh on water: Great racer Russell Coutts promotes sailing's version of speed chess

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For 60-year-old Russell Coutts, who has an Olympic sailing gold and five America's Cup titles, his art form is "chess on water".

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Russell Coutts' greying head nods and a thin smile flickers across a face sandpapered over a lifetime by winds.
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