Topic: Team Alinghi

Vanquished America's Cup champion Alinghi of Switzerland won't try to win back the oldest trophy in international sports in 2013.. The Swiss were routed in two races by San Francisco-based BMW Oracle Racing off Valencia, Spain, in the 33rd America ...

Alinghi withdraws from next America's Cup

Swiss two-time America's Cup winners Alinghi announced on Thursday evening that they will not be participating in the race's next edition in 2013.Two other teams, Britain's TeamOrigin -- led by triple Olympic champion Ben Ainslie -- and Team Germany, had ...

Match race

The most notable match race is the America's Cup which was until recently sailed by boats of the International America's Cup Class , which is a formula class. The design of America's Cup Class boats is controlled by a complex ...
So Keith Mills (Sir Keith) has a field day with the "1851 Cup" and about five minutes after his Team Origin boys win their match against BMW Oracle he gives an interview to the Times on Sunday, claiming that the only possible ...

One Thousand Roofs

An item placed today on the Alinghi website advises that Alinghi's America's Cup sails are being shipped to Haiti to be recut for use as tents by the victims of the January earthquake. The fabric could produce as many as ...
<div><p>America's Cup champion Oracle and Swiss syndicate Alinghi have agreed to drop all legal cases against each other going back to mid-2007, Oracle said Friday.</p><p>The agreement came some six weeks after Oracle won the 33rd edition ...
New Zealand sailor Russell Coutts is undecided on whether he will attempt a fifth America's Cup victory following Oracle's win in last month's controversial race.Coutts played leading roles in New Zealand's successful America's Cup campaigns in ...

USA Wins America’s Cup 33

The struggling Defender crossed the finish line flying a protest flag?5 minutes 26 seconds in arrears in a graying twilight, temperatures dropping (what, you forgot gloves? The evidence builds that these two boats could meet any number of times, and Larry ...

Two Camps, Two Moods at AC 33

It wouldn't be fair to say the mood was gloomy as Alinghi 5 docked out on Sunday morning to face match point in America's Cup 33. Alinghi docked out with a crew of 14, including team owner Ernesto Bertarelli listed ...
After waiting five days for good sailing conditions, the two competitors for the 33rd America's Cup Match finally drew their swords and began a duel that won't soon be forgotten. In the 5-minutes of maneuvering before the starting gun, skipper ...