Interestingly, there is only one German on the German boat: the bowman Tony Kolb.
In lane three, Stanning and Glover went out fast alongside the German boat and were clear by the 500m mark.
One highly anticipated competitor is the German boat Varuna, a Ker 51 design built by Knierim Yachtbau in Kiel and described as "an all black racing machine".
Illbruck Challenge yesterday became the first German boat to capture the Volvo Ocean Race, the grueling around-the-world sailing event contested every three years.
But when the boats crossed tacks again a short way down the track, Assa Abloy was ahead of the German boat.
We had beaten the German boat at the Lucerne Regatta, the last major competition before the Games, with a world-record time.
Having taken second place on the ninth and concluding overnight leg of the Volvo Ocean Race from nearby Goteberg, Sweden, Illbruck had become the first German boat to win the round-the-world yacht race.
When the USA entered the war a year later, Cravan helped make arrangements to get Johnson to the US consulate in Madrid, where the fugitive boxer somehow persuaded the then US consul to pay his expenses to monitor German boat movements through the notionally neutral Spanish ports, using his touring variety show as cover.
His aunt persuades him away from the tree, and tells him a story about Kass, a little pig that had once been passenger on the same German boat as she, and had met his untimely end when they needed fresh pork.
But their race came down to a battle against the German boat, with the British maintaining the upper hand throughout.
The Czech Republic team built on their back-to-back World Cup wins to claim bronze with a superb sprint in the final 250m holding off the German boat.
