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Team updates: Shosholoza changes tack Team updates: Shosholoza changes tack
Shosholoza, the South African challenger for the 32nd America’s Cup, has announced a change of skipper. Stepping off the boat is Geoff Meek, and coming aboard as the new skipper is Mark Sadler, who was previously in the afterguard as strategist.
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Team Shosholoza is South Africa’s sporting team of the year Team Shosholoza is South Africa’s sporting team of the year
The America’s Cup is the stage for the creating legends, and no one illustrates that better than the South African America’s Cup challenger, Team Shosholoza. Captain Salvatore Sarno’s squad was awarded the SA Sports Team of the Year title at the South African Sports Awards ceremony in Johannesburg. The sailing team was given the nod over the usual gods of South African sport - the cricket and rugby teams who usually dominate such awards.
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Three years before the 1851 victory of America at Cowes, the Swiss Confederation, born in 1291, adopted its first Constitution, giving birth to the modern Helvetian federal State, a gathering of German, Italian and French-speaking communities.
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Juan Meseguer - BMW ORACLE Racing Juan Meseguer - BMW ORACLE Racing
Valencian-born Juan Meseguer is a sail analyst working for BMW ORACLE. This is his second Cup campaign, having performed the same role for the Prada Challenge last time in Auckland.
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acm060615cm_3158w Valencia, 15 06 2006America’s Cup in New York.America’s Cup in front of Empire State Building.

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Craig Monk, BMW ORACLE Racing - Muscle and management Craig Monk, BMW ORACLE Racing - Muscle and management
Success at the Olympics in 1992 led to a chance meeting on a beach back in New Zealand a year later. “It feels like a time ago now. I was just helping a fellow Finn sailor out - Russell Coutts was his name - and he asked me to come and try out in the Cup boat. I thought, ‘OK, I’ll give it a go,’ and I’ve been a grinder ever since.”
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acm060615cm_3069w Valencia, 15 06 2006America’s Cup in New York.America’s Cup and Louis Vuitton Cup besides a genuine N.Y.C. Taxi.

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act12060620cb_6050w Valencia, 20 06 2006Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 12Luna Rossa Challenge during training.

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BMW ORACLE Racing flies USA XX to Valencia BMW ORACLE Racing flies USA XX to Valencia
The American BMW ORACLE Racing team became the first America’s Cup squad to bring a new generation boat to Valencia in 2006 on Tuesday night when its USA XX arrived at the team base after a flight from Seattle.
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Accelerated learning Accelerated learning
The accepted wisdom in America’s Cup racing is that there is no substitute for experience. The more you do of it, the better you get, is the theory. Luca Devoti, however, has adopted an altogether different strategy. Granted, the +39 team leader has some experienced heads working in the engine room but the sailors in the back of the boat, the afterguard, are new to this game, with the exception of Ian Walker. The former skipper of GBR Challenge and a double Olympic medallist, Walker has been brought in for Malmo and Trapani to call tactics.
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Americans, Italians to begin building Americans, Italians to begin building
The American challenger BMW ORACLE Racing and one of three Italian teams, Mascalzone Latino-Capitalia Team have each announced that they are ready to begin building the first of their two new boats. Each team is required to build new boats in the country from which it lodged its challenge.
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New challengers, new challenges New challengers, new challenges
For + 39 Challenge and the South Africans on board Team Shosholoza entering into the high profile sport of the America’s Cup for the first time is highly ambitious. Although both teams raced in 2004, their experience at the Cup game is still very limited.
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‘China Sails into the America’s Cup’ a success in Beijing ‘China Sails into the America’s Cup’ a success in Beijing
The ‘China Sails into the America’s Cup’ promotional evening in Beijing was a roaring success on Saturday night. The show at the Tian Qiao Theatre, produced by the organisers of the 32nd America’s Cup and Louis Vuitton, was attended by over 1,000 guests, including celebrities, VIPs and diplomats.
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Kiwis take NZL 84 out for a sail Kiwis take NZL 84 out for a sail
On Wednesday afternoon, Emirates Team New Zealand took their new boat, NZL 84, out for a sail on Valencia waters for the first time. The team had sailed NZL 82 earlier this week.
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Emirates Team New Zealand’s Barker wins the battle of the Kiwis Emirates Team New Zealand’s Barker wins the battle of the Kiwis
Emirates Team New Zealand helmsman Dean Barker won the New Zealand Match Racing Championships over the weekend, beating America’s Cup sailors from BMW ORACLE Racing and K-Challenge among others.
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Peter Holmberg, Team Alinghi Peter Holmberg, Team Alinghi
As helmsman, Peter Holmberg is a recent high-profile addition to the Alinghi team, following his departure from BMW ORACLE after the last America’s Cup. Holmberg first came to prominence in the 1988 Olympic Games, when he won a silver medal in the Finn singlehander, the only sailing medal ever won by a US Virgin Islander.
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Is the third time the charm? Is the third time the charm?
Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge is the eldest brother of the three Italian challenges at the 32nd America’s Cup, the third consecutive attempt at capturing the ‘Auld Mug’ by owner and project instigator Patrizio Bertelli and his skipper Francesco de Angelis.
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Juan Vila - Team Alinghi Juan Vila - Team Alinghi
Juan Vila has been equally successful in America’s Cup racing as in round-the-world racing in his crucial role of navigator. He was a member of the winning illbruck team in the last Volvo Ocean Race, and a year later was a member of Alinghi when the team won the America’s Cup
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Jochen Schuemann, Team Alinghi Jochen Schuemann, Team Alinghi
Jochen Schuemann is helmsman and Sporting Manager for Alinghi. He was part of the winning Cup team in Auckland 2003, and is one of the most successful Olympians of all time with three golds and one silver medal. Andy Rice spoke to him ahead of the Marseille Louis Vuitton Act, in September.
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Anna Kournikova in the Port America’s Cup Anna Kournikova in the Port America’s Cup
Cameramen, photographers and journalists were flocking around the Emirates Team New Zealand base on Tuesday morning. And what was all the excitement about?
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‘Been here long?’ - ‘No, just arrived.’ ‘Been here long?’ - ‘No, just arrived.’
Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge and Sweden’s Victory Challenge both have very different experiences in Valencia. The Italians have been here longer than any other team in the 32nd America’s Cup, setting up a base in Valencia shortly after it was announced as the host city, and well before the team challenged. The Luna Rossa team was sailing in Valencia as early as April last year.
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ESP 88 comes to the Port America’s Cup ESP 88 comes to the Port America’s Cup
The new yacht of Desaf o Espa ol 2007 has entered the Port America’s Cup. It is the first time that a challenger is racing in its own country and ESP 88 is the first boat built by the Spanish team for its campaign for the Cup.
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USA 87 is christened in Valencia USA 87 is christened in Valencia
The American BMW ORACLE Racing team opened its base to over 700 guests on Monday night for a christening ceremony for their new boat, USA 87. During the ceremony, the bow of the boat pushed through a ‘wall of water’ to spectacular effect, revealing the front quarter of the boat.
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Why Louis Vuitton Americas Cup .com you might ask . Well the current Louis Vuitton Acts, the Louis Vuitton Cup and the America’s Cup Match itself are all part of the 32nd America’s Cup event . You see the Challengers earn ‘Bonus Points’ based on their ranking in the Louis Vuitton Acts. These ‘Bonus Points’ are added to each challenger’s score in the Louis Vuitton Cup, improving that challengers chances of advancing and winning the right to meet the Defender.

The Defender is the Yacht Club currently holding the America’s Cup,Last time around it was in my home country of New Zealand in this case the Société Nautique de Genève (SNG), and its team, Alinghi.
Challengers are the teams representing Yacht Clubs who have challenged the SNG in an attempt to win the Cup.And yip you better belive it whne I say New Zealand is up for the challenge we have always been respected in this event and certainly eyes will be on us  in 2007.

All teams  participate in the Acts, training , yatching and getting stronger through competition against each other until April 2007 the final Act .
The America’s Cup has now become an obsession for some of the most famous, powerful, and exceedingly eccentric characters in the world. The America’s Cup transcends mere sport; rather, it is a story of adventure, ambition, innovation, creativity, fame and competition. Not to mention Expenense

A Famous New Zealand  sailor, Tom Schnackenberg, describes the Americas Cup  like this:
“The America’s Cup is a microcosm of the world. It’s real and it’s gripping and you can enjoy it on all sorts of levels - at a managerial level, because it’s quite complex, from a sporting point of view, from trying to understand mother nature, whether the weather or the waves, or trying to understand the physics of the boats. It’s a war game, and the boats are beautiful.

Only the Challengers fight for the Louis Vuitton Cup in 2007.
Then one goes on to fight for the Americas cup.

Why the Americas Cup ?

Well this is how I think it happened around 1851, a boat named America won the 100 Guinea Cup which was given to the winner of a race around the Isle of Wight. The winners, members of the New York Yacht Club, donated the trophy to the Club, to be held as a ‘challenge’ trophy. Thus was born the America’s Cup, named after the boat, not the country I might add.
There you have alittle history and heads up on The Louis Vuitton Challengers and Americas Cup Look Forward to being able to provide you with updates and more news as is comes to hand .

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