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vm1j0438 Valencia, 02 07 2006Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 12Emirates Team New Zealand.

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act12060702ff__4321 Valencia, 02 07 2006Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 12Desafio Espanol 2007.

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United Internet Team Germany second in ‘Match Race Germany’ United Internet Team Germany second in ‘Match Race Germany’
United Internet Team Germany skipper Jesper Bank finished second in a World Match Racing Tour event in Germany, dropping the final 2-1 on Monday. The final of the event, on Lake Constance, was shortened due to light winds.
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act12060628ff__2352w Valencia, 28 06 2006Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 12Desafio Espanol vs Victory Challenge.

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act12060625sg_3866w Valencia, 25 06 2006Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 12Desafio Espanol 2007 vs Mascalzone Latino-Capitalia Team.

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act12060702cb_2700 Valencia,02 07 2006Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 12Dean Barker and Grant Dalton from Emirates Team New Zealand, winner of the Louis Vuitton Act 12 and of the 2006 season with Yves Carcelle, President of Louis Vuitton Malletier.

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Marcelino Botin is one half of the yacht design partnership Botin & Carkeek, which has dominated IMS racing in Spain over the past few years. His design successes in Grand Prix regattas like the Copa del Rey led to an invitation to join the design team of Emirates Team New Zealand, where he is now employed as a ‘free thinker’. Marcelino comes from a wealthy banking family, but here he explains why he chose a different career.

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Pressure and patience…Ray Davies ETNZ Pressure and patience…Ray Davies ETNZ
After a closely fought match against +39, Emirates Team New Zealand tactician Ray Davies gives a hint of the workings of the brains trust aboard NZL-84.
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Five minutes with Grant Dalton Five minutes with Grant Dalton
Grant Dalton is the managing director and leader of Emirates Team New Zealand. After losing the Cup to Alinghi in 2003, the Kiwis turned to Dalton to provide the leadership necessary to turn the team around. It seems to be working - ETNZ has won the Louis Vuitton ACC Championship in 2004 and now again in 2006.
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Farr 40 glory for Mascalzone Latino Farr 40 glory for Mascalzone Latino
Vincenzo Onorato, the man behind the America’s Cup team Mascalzone Latino-Capitalia, has achieved a long-standing sailing goal by winning the Farr 40 world championships. The Farr 40 class is among the most competitive fleets in the world, attracting top sailors as crew for the owners, who steer the boats.
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Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team christen ITA 90 Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team christen ITA 90
The Italian Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team christened its first new boat on Wednesday in a ceremony that linked the team base in the Port America’s Cup with a press conference for Italian media in Milan.
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Victory Challenge - ready for home waters Victory Challenge - ready for home waters

Sweden’s Victory Challenge is the team with the most reason to be excited by the prospect of the Malm -Sk ne Louis Vuitton Acts 6 & 7 at the end of August. It’s an opportunity for the Swedes to show their homeland what the America’s Cup is all about, and with a strong opening performance by the team in the Valencia Louis Vuitton Acts, there’s plenty to be enthusiastic about.

Magnus Holmberg is the skipper and sailing manager of Victory Challenge. In June, he led the team to a fifth place finish in the match races of Act 4 in Valencia, and then surprised the Cup community with a dominating performance in the fleet races of Louis Vuitton Act 5. Victory would have won the regatta, but for a Jury decision on a technical issue that disqualified the team from one race. With just a few weeks of preparation, the Swedish performance in Valencia was nothing short of spectacular.

We caught up with Magnus in Valencia, where the team continues to train in preparation for the Malm -Sk ne Louis Vuitton Acts.

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Red ships arrive Red ships arrive
Across the harbour from the +39 Challenge installation, the South bases now also have an Italian flavour: a dedicated but relaxed spirit that one could already feel in the air around ITA 66 and ITA 77.
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Harry Dunning is the principal designer for the Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team. He has been a professional yacht designer for over 20 years, including long stints at Farr Yacht Design and the Reichel & Pugh design office.
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Five minutes with Grant Dalton Five minutes with Grant Dalton
Grant Dalton is the managing director and leader of Emirates Team New Zealand. After losing the Cup to Alinghi in 2003, the Kiwis turned to Dalton to provide the leadership necessary to turn the team around. It seems to be working - ETNZ has won the Louis Vuitton ACC Championship in 2004 and now again in 2006.
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Five minutes with Grant Dalton Five minutes with Grant Dalton
Grant Dalton is the managing director and leader of Emirates Team New Zealand. After losing the Cup to Alinghi in 2003, the Kiwis turned to Dalton to provide the leadership necessary to turn the team around. It seems to be working - ETNZ has won the Louis Vuitton ACC Championship in 2004 and now again in 2006.
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Swiss datum Swiss datum
“The advantage that the Challengers have to race among themselves while measuring and improving their performance is a big one,” says Alinghi helmsman Peter Holmberg.
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Number one - with a bullet Number one - with a bullet
If the 11 challengers for the 32nd America’s Cup thought that Alinghi was going to roll over and play dead after a sub-par 2004 season that saw it finish third behind Emirates Team New Zealand and BMW ORACLE Racing, and lose the skipper who won the past three America’s Cup Matches, the dominating performance of the Swiss Defender in 2005 must have come as a hard dose of reality.
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