act12060622ff__1013 Valencia, 22 06 2006Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 12Team Shosholoza vs Desafio Espanol 2007
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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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“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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