Tuesday 28 May 2013

America's Cup update, teams sit down together to thrash out the details of new rules stemming from race safety report

From the following blog post by Russell Green on the ETNZ website:

http://etnzblog.com/#!2013/05/teams-get-down-to-some-serious-talking

Emirates Team New Zealand’s rules advisor Russell Green blogs about moving goal posts and the negotiations ahead.

Last Wednesday was my first day working in San Francisco and we were called to a meeting late in the afternoon by regatta director, Iain Murray, who presented his recommendations from the work of the Review Committee. Present were the key members of the teams, the event authority and Louis Vuitton.

Iain Murray, who distributed the report and then worked through the document explaining all the relevant points, looked tired. It was clear there had been some long hours worked by Review Committee in the previous six days, an amazing job in such a short time.

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