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Vendee Globe: Sir Keith Mills and Shirley Robertson onboard Hugo Boss When Alex left The Dock

Alex Thomson Was The next of the British sailors to Leave the dock. The emotions of the day Were Clearly visible as Thomson Fought to Hold Back the tears as His Father cast off Hugo Boss's Line, With goal WAS smiling and waving to the Crowd lining The channel did he Sailed out of port With Sir Keith Mills and Shirley Robertson onboard.

The ever-professional Mike Golding WAS clearly "itching to get on With the job in hand, and calmly set off With Ecover 3, assisted by Bruno Dubois of North Sails France & the Ecover shore team. The team Even Had Time to retrieve errant bottle of Ecover year product HAD Which Dropped Into the sea!

Before Leaving, Brian Thompson enjoyed relaxed Some Time with family history, Playing With His Children in the cockpit of Bahrain Team Pindar. Family and friends decorated Have The coachroof Of The boat with message for Brian, whilst history Children Have Added Their handprints to Accompany HIM on His Journe

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Turning jacket?

Sir Keith Mills, who is London's Olympics and the union boss for the British Team Origin America's Cup, was much less favorable to the cause of Alinghi in an interview with the magazine Seahorse. Taking a more moderate position vis-à-vis BMW Oracle Racing, which he castigated again in late 2008, the contractor he feel the tide turn in favor of the Americans?

Sir Keith Mills, who is London's Olympics and the union boss for the British Team Origin America's Cup, was much less favorable to the cause of Alinghi in an interview with the magazine Seahorse. Taking a more moderate position vis-à-vis BMW Oracle Racing, which he castigated again in late 2008, the contractor he feel the tide turn in favor of the Americans?

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America's Cup, the stampede

After the British, the Germans also waived participation

How will they be arguing, in 2013, the right to challenge BMW Oracle at the 34th America's Cup?

By last weekend, Team Origin, the British Challenge was established in 2007, had announced that he would not enlist as a Challenger in the next edition. On the website of Team Origin Sir Keith Mills, the director and sponsor of the team, stated that he considered the new rules of the Cup "or commercially viable or interesting from a sporting point of view." It seems that the date of the event, or 2013, has also weighed in the decision of Mills. Find sponsors in England for a maturity as close to the London Olympics of 2012 is almost impossible mission.

Wednesday was the turn of Team Germany dropping. "In light of the rules established by BMW Oracle, Team Germany is not able to register for the 34th edition", clarified their statement. In 2007, Team Germany was the first German challenge to participate in the America's Cup.

Behind these denials lurks the fear expressed by several teams behind the scenes, the Americans, with the choice of a catamaran rigid wing and the date 2013, have locked things enough to ensure victory. More so than the class rules of the boat have not yet been published and that it remains unclear where the event will take place.

Not until the registration deadline, March 31 next, to know that, besides the Italian Challenge "Mascalzone Latino of Vincenzo Onorato (Challenger of Record), will be there.

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Team Origin throws in the towel

First consequence (victim?) Change of direction of the America's Cup.
The British Team Origin - team funded by Sir Keith Mills, led by Grant Simmer and skippered by Ben Ainslie - announced today that they gave up arguing the 34th America's Cup.

According to the press today, the 34th edition is "not commercially viable or interesting from a sporting point of view. "

Sir Keith Mills seems to have made his decision quickly, since early this week (see previous post), Ben Ainslie announced that his team will play next year the Extreme 40 circuit.

It's a big team which withdraws and a blow to BMW Oracle to lose such a serious challenger for the 34th edition.

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At the last round the Americas Cup turns to boxing
REGATTA The 33th edition is scheduled for February 8 in Valencia, Spain. All shots are allowed to ErnestoBertarelli and Larry Ellison, tycoons in a bitter duel.

Ernesto Bertarelli and Larry Ellison. Swiss wealth first, third American fortune. More than 35 billion dollars between them. The equivalent of the GNP of Tunisia. They are there on the lake of Valencia. Everyone on his yacht. Monday, February 8, they will fight for sailboats interposed. Formula 1 carbon fiber, jewelry-clad technology worth tens of millions of dollars. A maxi-catamaran to Bertarelli, Alinghi team boss. A trimaran for Ellison and his Oracle BMW team. Coxswains, navigators, tacticians, adjusters sailing are pumped. They train for months. The Swiss on Lake Geneva, Genoa and the United Arab Emirates, and the Americans in the Bay of San Diego. In Valencia, the match will be best of three races and the die is cast: one of the tycoons lift up the trophy, a silver ewer a bit outdated by 78 cm high, The Auld Mug. He will win the 33rd America's Cup, the oldest competition in the world.
For two and a half years, Bertarelli and Ellison are looking for. The duel has been announced many times, at different times in different places on different gauges. In vain. Unable to agree, both sides have stepped up their procedures. January 13, Larry Ellison's lawyers have filed a new action. The dispute? Inspect to see that the sails of the Alinghi team respect the principle of nationality. Clearly, they were designed in the country of origin. Cries of outrage from Switzerland, which ensure that it comes from Villeneuve, near Montreux. And who retaliated by accusing Oracle of the catamaran he was inspired by a French design ...
The Cup will she be on February 8, as planned? In principle yes. But surprises are expected. There will probably postponements due to weather, Alinghi had declared that the races will not occur if wind velocity exceeds 15 knots. However, this winter, there are few days that have met these conditions. More problematic, it is not impossible, if they win the Swiss, Oracle continue the fight to the courtroom. "If Larry Ellison wins on the green, I tell him 'bravo Larry" and I'll pay him the champagne, "said a sarcastic tone Ernesto Bertarelli.

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Record of extravagance
The Americas Cup is customary judicial procedures, battles of ego and extravagance of every kind. But the Oracle-Alinghi duel has broken all records with over 200 million dollar budget, 44 million legal fees. Catamaran helicopter over the Alps, trimaran with a rigid sail twice longer than that of a B 747, ULM-use seaplane capable of measuring wind speed at different altitudes: the billionaires do not skimp on means.
Founder of software company Oracle, Ellison, 65, was at all successful.
The abandoned child, a lover of Japanese culture, has won dozens of IPOs and sailing competitions, including the famous Sydney Hobart and very dangerous. Any success? Almost. The most beautiful trophies eluded him, while the last two editions of the America, he put every $ 100 million on the table. In vain. Ernesto is always the pitcher who raised money.
Excellent sailor, Switzerland triumph in his first attempt. Aged 44, this boy well in all respects, born in Rome, but whose family emigrated to Geneva in the 1970s for fear of the Red Brigades and the Italian tax authorities, represents everything qu'Ellison abhors. It is an heir who was content to grow Serono, the biotechnology company founded by his grandfather, before selling 10 billion euros to Merck. Spoiled child, Bertarelli is also resolved a man who knows to surround himself. The Auld Mug to win in 2003 in Auckland, the immorality half the New Zealand team, the defending champion. For the tycoons, the Cup, 160 years old, is a childhood dream that they can acquire more soul, a fragment of eternity.

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American stronghold
It all began in 1851. The competition, which was then called the 100 Guineas Cup, takes place in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. It applies only to British ships. At the time, Britain rules the sea. But in the second half of the nineteenth century, the world changes, other nations are beginning to emerge. Queen Victoria opening the event to foreigners. A group of investors in the New York Yacht Club which meets the challenge. The race takes place August 22, 1851. Seeing the schooner emerge from the mist, the queen asks his aide: "Who is first? - America. - Who is second? - Majesty, there is no second. "
For 131 years until the yacht Australia II's victory, the Cup remains in American hands. The yacht clubs grouped into unions are financed by tycoons such as John Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Harold Vanderbilt. They repel the assaults of Sir Thomas Lipton, who for over thirty years will attempt to avenge the Crown. Come later other glorious losers, as the Italian Raul Gardini, head of Ferruzzi, and even the French Marcel Bich, Bic boss. But the Cup remains a bastion of the New World. So when Ernesto Bertarelli wins in Auckland in 2003, is insane! The Auld Mug back on the Old Continent after 152 years of absence. And his owner is from a country that has no access to the sea .. According to the founding document of the event, the Deed of Gift, the Swiss is the master of the game (winner takes all). In 2004, he convinced the Spanish government to invest EUR 1 billion in new infrastructure in Valencia. Then he created in various places minirégates three days on the model of F 1 Grand Prix. The yachtsmen, conservative by nature, enjoy these little changes. They do not mind the economic front, but denounced the transformation of the venerable institution's cash machine.

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After the second victory of Alinghi, the situation becomes serious. The unions believe that Bertarelli pushes his advantage too far. "It changes the rules when it suits, protests Russell Coutts, Alinghi's former past BMW Oracle. It is as if at a football match, a team decided that now she has the right to play with your hands. "On the Net," sailors "let go, criticizing a symbol of Swiss Bertarelli arrogant, in line with the bankers of UBS. "I want him to life," writes on his blog Bruno Troublé, organizer of the late Louis Vuitton Cup.
To understand this animosity deaf, we must return to the source of misunderstanding. Valencia, 3 July 2007: Alinghi wins for the second time the America's Cup against Team New Zealand. Bertarelli has barely had time to drink a glass of champagne, brandishing The Auld Mug and hug his beautiful wife, Kirsty, already designated his challenger for the next edition. Why the rush? Because the Deed of Gift says that once the competition is over, any union can come to challenge the victor, the defender, in plain English. In 1988, American Dennis Conner, legend of the race with four wins, was slow to designate an opponent and was challenged by an obscure New Zealand banker.

Event reformatted
Bertarelli does not renew the error, and chooses the Club Nautico Espanol de Vela. An unknown team to the battalion. "This is a club can, it has no members, indignant Bruno Troublé. Ellison attack immediately. The boss of Oracle sees an opportunity to settle his account in Switzerland and perhaps also to triumph without a fight. In November 2007, the Supreme Court of New York gives her reason. Oracle becomes the official challenger. At this time, the Cup format change.
Since 1983, she played in two acts. First, the Louis Vuitton Cup, which takes place between a dozen unions for three months. Then, after the first round, the America's Cup, between the winner of the Louis Vuitton and the defender. This time, due to irreconcilable positions between Alinghi and Oracle, the competition takes place only in the form of a duel between two teams. All other unions are technically unemployed. "We went from 10 to 100 people," says Sir Keith Mills, president of the British team TeamOrigin.

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Ghost Town
Some teams throw in the towel: Team Germany Germans, South Africans Shosholoza, a Greek union, a Swedish ... The monohulls that had served in the previous Cup gathers dust in warehouses. Without visibility on timing or the 33rd and 34th editions, hard to put together a project that makes sense. "Since fi n 2007, Valencia became Ghost Town," said Stephane Kandler, CEO of the Franco-German At l4One. But Bertarelli and Ellison, mired in their battle of egos, do not care as their first yacht. Among the sponsors is the stampede. Louis Vuitton, not wanting to ruin twenty-five years of investment, is forced to mount a rush a parallel competition, the Louis Vuitton World Series.
The responsibility for this fiasco, unions attribute to the two billionaires. They want to Bertarelli for taking liberties with the rules. And to denounce the extremism of Ellison, which resulted in delaying the start of the 33rd Cup. Let alone that of the 34th, which excluded many hoping to be reinstated. The sailing world sank, but the Love Boat. Like kids in a playground, Ernesto and Larry increasing incidents and remedies.
Before the controversy over the nationality of the sails, there was the dispute over the site of the regatta. August 4,
Alinghi announced that the race will be held in Ras al-Khaimah, UAE. Why this place? Because, say the Swiss, "the weather and sea conditions are exceptional." And that little time in the region promotes their catamaran, trimaran lighter than Oracle. For Ellison, this is too much. The Swiss again violate the Deed of Gift, which says that when the Cup was held between November 1 and May 1, it should be conducted in the Southern Hemisphere, Valencia being the exception to the accepted rule.
Oracle CEO appoints David Boies, a star of the New York Bar, which unfolds in front of Judge Shirley Kornreich a card with a strong argument: Iran is only 100 kilometers from Ras al-Khaimah . Barry Ostrager, the board of Alinghi, counters that the probability of an attack is higher in Spain. Same rhetoric for the lawyer of the UAE, which reminds us that many international sports competitions have been held in Dubai without security problems. But the judge sided with Korn reich Oracle. The Cup will be held in Valencia. The sailors from Alinghi and Oracle are preparing their package. The boats are removed and leave as cargo. His Highness Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr al-Qasimi has only his eyes to cry. Crown Prince of Ras alKhayma have invested 120 million dollars to host the Cup home. Wasted.

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Boats monstrous
Vessel sizes - huge squares of 27 meters by 27, the largest dimension tolerated by the Deed of Gift - has also resulted in a beautiful passage of arms. Unlikely that format was decided by the Americans to push the Swiss to negotiation. "We wanted to put them under pressure," says Joseph Ozanne, a member of the team of Larry Ellison. But the bluff did not work, and we find ourselves today with monsters as delusional as the Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes of the aircraft.
Sailboats ent challenge the imagination. They can go to the phenomenal speed of 40 knots (over 70 miles an hour). Some sailors, for security reasons, wearing helmets. Catamaran Swiss, which has hydraulic winches to hoist and lower the sails, this looks like a giant dragonfly. Its width is that of two tennis courts. The wing 60 meters of the Oracle trimaran weighs 3.5 tons, and it takes three hours and two cranes for mounting on the boat.
By the end of the regatta, these monsters will be stored. Their fragility prohibits them from engaging in another competition. And the next America's Cup should argue over monohulls. Now up to the duel. According to experts, the race is wide open because of the weather in Valencia. But whatever. Whatever happens, the squabbles and the mad extravagance of Ernesto Bertarelli and Larry Ellison have fed the myth of the race. Even if his interest in sports has been weakened.

Peaceful spirit
"The competition will regain its former glory," predicted Sir Keith Mills, Team Origin. "Once the voltage has settled, we should reform the Cup, admits his side Alain Gautier, helmsman for Alinghi. The old American needs a facelift. "It should perhaps also return to the sources and the spirit of the event. The Deed of Gift states that it must be organized by "mutual consent" between two unions. To be "a clash between peaceful nations."

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