In what ranks as one of the most enthralling races from start to finish in America’s Cup history, Emirates Team New Zealand scored a 16-second victory in Race 10 of the 34th America’s Cup. The win came after ORACLE TEAM USA scored a 47-second victory in Race 9 to gain its first point of the series.
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A crowd of some 50,000 people flocked to the America’s Cup venues on the shores of San Francisco Bay to take in the 34th America’s Cup and were treated to heart-stopping action between defender ORACLE TEAM USA and challenger Emirates Team New Zealand.
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Challenger Emirates Team New Zealand won Race 5 of the 34th America’s Cup convincingly, and then Defender ORACLE TEAM USA used its one and only “postponement card” to try and put a halt to the Kiwi’s winning ways.
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The 34th America’s Cup opened on San Francisco Bay today with close racing, a pair of lead changes in one race and crew work as solid as the redwood trees that are a feature of northern California. At the end of the day, challenger Emirates Team New Zealand returned to its base with a 2-0 lead over defender ORACLE TEAM USA.
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Emirates Team New Zealand took two more steps towards winning its second consecutive Louis Vuitton Cup by winning Races 4 and 5 of the 30th anniversary final.
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With seven points needed to secure a place in the 34th America’s Cup, Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge will take the points however they come. Today the Italian challenger evened the score in the Louis Vuitton Cup Final at 1-1 with a semi-walkover win against Emirates Team New Zealand.
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America’s Cup defender ORACLE TEAM USA grabbed headlines this morning when the day’s crew lists were released. The defender had changed tacticians, inserting four-time Olympic gold medalist Ben Ainslie in place of past America’s Cup champion John Kostecki.
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ORACLE TEAM USA notched their first win of the 34th America’s Cup in the fourth race of the regatta today in San Francisco. The crew crossed the line 8 seconds ahead of Emirates Team New Zealand in the second of two races on Sunday. New Zealand won Race 3 earlier in the day and hold the advantage in the series.
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Emirates Team New Zealand won the 30th anniversary Louis Vuitton Cup with a 3:20 victory over Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge in the eighth and deciding race. The Kiwis, who beat Luna Rossa in the previous Louis Vuitton Cup in 2007, won the series 7-1.
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Emirates Team New Zealand regained the lead in the Louis Vuitton Cup Final today when Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge had to pull up at the beginning of Leg 3 with damage sustained to a sheave on the control arm of the 131-foot tall wing sail.
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