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America's Cup - Streaming on Sail-World.com - Race Day 2
By Richard Gladwell. Sail-World.com, Valencia, Spain ,
12:11 AM Wed 10 Feb 2010
Watch Live Streaming of the America's Cup via the BMW ORACLE Racing Live feed on Sail-World.com. ...from the postponement flag down ...
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America’s Cup – Over it? But watching it!
By Brendan Maxwell,
5:53 PM Tue 9 Feb 2010
Last night in the Asia-Pacific, early morning in the America’s and daytime in Europe and Africa, was the scheduled start for the 2010 America’s Cup. Once upon a time, this was the stuff of sailing magazines, but not any more. The web went into meltdown, with the official America’s Cup site amongst those that fell over. ...
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Paul Cayard - No wind, no sailing and a let down
By Paul Cayard,
1:15 PM Tue 9 Feb 2010
Paul Cayard is in Valencia and here is his latest report. In this case here in Valencia, we have put ourselves in the hands of a judge because we could not agree on when to race. So here we are in February, in Europe, trying to hold the most important race in our sport. This is going to be about as difficult as holding the World Cup of skiing in Gstaad in August. ...
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America's Cup Images - 2010 Day One as the Alinghi Team saw it
By Sail-World.com,
8:16 AM Tue 9 Feb 2010
The Alinghi team photographers were on the water and in the air on Day One of the 2010 America's Cup. Here is a selction of their images. ...
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America's Cup Images: People on the Water on Day 1
By Sail-World,
7:33 AM Tue 9 Feb 2010
More images from off the water on Day 1 of the 33rd America's Cup Match, including several personalities associated with the America's Cup ...
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America's Cup Images: Alinghi 5 close-up
By Richard Gladwell,
6:30 AM Tue 9 Feb 2010
The four hour postponement of Race 1 of the 33rd America's Cup gave Sail-World a chance to have a look at Alinghi 5 up close - having done the same yesterday with USA-17. The two boats are very different in some regards and very similar in others. Both are remarkable pieces of engineering. ...
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Images from Valencia: America's Cup - Day 1
By Richard Gladwell,
6:17 AM Tue 9 Feb 2010
Images for the first day of 'racing'in the 33rd America's Cup, Valencia. Racing was abandoned for the day after the start was postponed for four hours ...
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BMW Oracle Racing: First race of America’s Cup is abandoned
By Jane Eagleson,
5:47 AM Tue 9 Feb 2010
With very light and shifting winds over the race area, the Race Committee was unable to find suitable conditions for racing.
'We had a southerly breeze well offshore that was occasionally filtering into the start area,' explained team meteorologist Chris Bedford (USA). 'But closer to shore we had a westerly breeze for most of the afternoon. At times it was showing up to 14 knots at the top mark ...
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Alinghi: Unstable weather foils Race 1 of 33rd America's Cup
By Daphne Morgan Barnicoat,
5:30 AM Tue 9 Feb 2010
A passing cold front puts a halt to the much anticipated showdown between the giant multihulls and today's scheduled Race 1 of the 33rd America's Cup Match was postponed due to light and unstable winds on the Mediterranean Sea. The Alinghi team was looking forward to racing the 90ft catamaran Alinghi 5 after seven months of testing and trialling, but now they'll have to wait until Wednesday for t ...
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Fisher's View: What price an America's Cup handbag?
By Bob Fisher,
5:13 AM Tue 9 Feb 2010
Bob Fisher reviews the first day's 'racing' in the 33rd America's Cup:
The handbags were hung from the hooks for the morning, not required for what it was proposed to do from before daylight until the early afternoon. The seconds were called out and the ring cleared for action. But that was as far as it went. The start was scheduled for 1006 CET, but at 1330 the handbags were lifted from th ...
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America's Cup: Better weather prognosis for Wednesday + Video
By Richard Gladwell,
3:40 AM Tue 9 Feb 2010
While the weather prognosis for Wednesday is much better, than today, the dogs of Valencia, can expect a day on the chain.
Strong winds are predicted for Tuesday, so even if it were a race day in the 33rd match, it is unlikely any racing would be possible. The string wind will probably mean that BMW Oracle Racing will be dropping their wingsail as a precaution. ...
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America's Cup: What one can see in the Valencia Darsena
By Lorraine MacIntosh, Valencia ,
2:54 AM Tue 9 Feb 2010
Where's this cup going? For the Opening Day the Cup was spotted whizzing across the Village after it had impressed the crowd at the Sunday opening event. But if you missed that there was still plenty to check out along with hamburgers and paella in plentiful supply. Even with such a completely different event from 2007, Valencia has a great venue for the America's Cup. ...
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