The Americas Cup & Louis Vuitton Challengers
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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