Sir Keith Mills backs Sir Ben Ainslie

SIR KEITH MILLS is ready to set up a British America’s Cup team with Sir Ben Ainslie after Britain’s greatest sailor helped spark one of the biggest comebacks in sport. With billionaire Larry Ellison, owner of Ainslie’s victorious Oracle Team USA, promising to reduce costs to attract more teams, Mills wants to realise Ainslie’s dream of bringing the Auld Mug home for the first time since the inaugural race 162 years ago. “We could assemble an extraordinary, predominantly British team to go and win the cup,” said Mills, who played a leading role in organising the London Olympics. Ainslie said: “The America’s Cup started in the UK in 1851, we’ve never had it back since, so it’s about time we changed that.”