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Wednesday, 9 January 2013

America's Cup Update, USA events on the ACWS (AC45) calender have beem cancelled

From the following Sail-World article by Richard Gladwell

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Americas-Cup:-US-events-in-Americas-Cup-World-Series-cancelled/105413

In a media conference just concluded the America's Cup Events Authority have announced that the two America's Cup World Series events scheduled for USA have been cancelled.

The events were set down from May 28-30, and May 31 - June 2, 2013. Although no venue was nominated on www.americascup.com, the official website, it was advised that they were to have been held in New York.

The only America's Cup World Series that will be staged will be sailed in Naples, Italy, in three months time starting April 16.

America's Cup Event Authority CEO, Stephen Barclay, confirmed this morning that Naples had paid the first of their three event fees required to stage the regatta and that it would proceed as scheduled.

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'Oracle Team USA digs the bows in and capsizes at the first mark in the first fleet race of day four of the America’s Cup World Series, San Francisco.'   photo courtesy Sail-World



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