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America’s Cup Match, presented by Louis Vuitton
Race 9: Emirates Team New Zealand bt Oracle Team USA by 0:55
Oracle Team USA entered the box for the pre-start on port tack. New Zealand entered ten seconds later on starboard. Oracle drove deep to the ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2017
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Peter Burling playfully taunted Oracle Team USA after the defenders’ first win of the America’s Cup Match, saying it was “great to see a little fight out of these boys”.
Burling, the Emirates Team New Zealand helmsman, said he was satisfied with the ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2017
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Jimmy Spithill, the Oracle Team USA skipper, lost his cool over umpiring decisions that have gone against his team in this America’s Cup.
The Australian decided enough was enough after his team incurred a penalty for failing to stay clear of challeng...
DATE: Jun 25, 2017
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Oracle Team USA’s upgrades seemed to have paid off with some additional speed in Matches 5 and 6, the first races after the five-day layoff. However, an error at the start and a failure to keep clear penalty made the difference in Race 5.
In Race 6 i...
DATE: Jun 25, 2017
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America’s Cup Match, presented by Louis Vuitton
Race 8: Emirates Team New Zealand beat Oracle Team USA by 0:30
Team New Zealand gave Oracle a sailing lesson today. Peter Burling and crew sailed a flawless second race to take their seventh win in Berm...
DATE: Jun 25, 2017
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Peter Barnard and Anne Samis stormed to victory in the America’s Cup Endeavour Hobie Wave Regatta on the Great Sound yesterday.
The Americans were by far the most consistent team in the light-air conditions, winning seven of the 12 races sailed to fi...
DATE: Jun 24, 2017
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Tom Slingsby, the Oracle Team USA tactician and sailing team manager, believes the defenders of the “Auld Mug” have made headway in their quest for faster speed in light-air conditions.
Oracle’s vulnerability in the lighter wind was laid bare for all...
DATE: Jun 24, 2017
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Viewers of today’s fifth and sixth races of the America’s Cup Match, presented by Louis Vuitton, will see the world’s ultimate sailing action in real time ... foiling catamarans flying at each other with closing speeds approaching 100mph. Pilots, not...
DATE: Jun 24, 2017
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Murray Jones, the Emirates Team New Zealand coach, has drawn striking parallels between the Kiwis’ present crop of sailors and those who captured the hearts of the sailing-mad nation after winning the America’s Cup for the first time more than two de...
DATE: Jun 24, 2017
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I’ll admit it, I was a sceptic — or at best ambivalent — about the whole America’s Cup thing. Then last Thursday, Jimmy Spithill flew the Oracle boat at full foiling speed ten feet off our beam in 15 knots of breeze on the Great Sound in Bermuda. All...
DATE: Jun 24, 2017
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