Americas Cup
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@jc said in Americas Cup:
I'm with @Kiwiwomble here. Why is having to take the conditions and course into account any different that say golf? Or F1 for that matter?
Because it has a dramatic effect on the event. It is the layout of the course and the wind conditions that create the contest, that is why they cancel, postpone and abandon them if things aren't right.
F1 gets called off if the weather doesn't play nicely. Golf for lightning, etc.
Sailing just has more marginal parameters. Particularly for these boats.
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I'm with @Snowy. It's not like playing a footy game in the rain, or if the wind gets up. At least then the conditions are similar for both teams and you can enjoy seeing who best adapts.
It's like playing a game of footy where bear traps randomly open and close swallowing up players. Sure it could interest some people but it would complete render the contest meaningless as a game of rugby and leave it purely to chance who would come out on top. Not how you'd want to decide the RWC - or any game for that matter
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seeing kick off has been delayed
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@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:
kiwis should know better than to start celebrating too early
Imagine if they lost it from here
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@booboo said in Americas Cup:
@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:
kiwis should know better than to start celebrating too early
Imagine if they lost it from here
I remember listening to some coverage, LR were rumoured to have got Ernesto Bertarelli (Alinghi) lined up as CoR if they win. Apparently he contacted TNZ to see if there were interested in selling their first boat. I'm sure Grant's answer was
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anyone else think its kind of sad teams like Alingi and Oracle just forgot about the AC once they lost it? love or hate they both added some edge to it all
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Reports say Bertarelli might be interested in getting back in the game, but that was probably contingent on the event being in Europe.
This will be the end of the TNZ-LR relationship as things off the water have been strained. If the AC is retained I expect INEOS to be the CoR in the future based on comments by Ainslie.
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@kiwiwomble I'm more disappointed that there haven't been challenges from the likes of Australia, country's with a real AC history, for 20 years rather than a couple of rich pricks who went out and bought the cup and then took their ball home in a funk when they got beat. Particularly Oracle who decided if they couldn't play they'd set up a rival circuit to devalue AC.
Hope Burling and co win that next too!!!
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@bovidae said in Americas Cup:
Reports say Bertarelli might be interested in getting back in the game, but that was probably contingent on the event being in Europe.
This will be the end of the TNZ-LR relationship as things off the water have been strained. If the AC is retained I expect INEOS to be the CoR in the future based on comments by Ainslie.
yeah, i think that's the worst kept secret in the AC
@dogmeat that fair enough, ive got a good mate over here and Aus who is a sailor, out every weekend racing kind of guy, he was pretty disappointed, theres lots of support
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@bovidae said in Americas Cup:
The AC village is already at capacity (5500) to watch on the big screen.
So good. Beachfront at Taka has a good turnout too. Big screen on and racing not too far off the beach
Some idiot sitting in front of the Taka beach cam haha
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looks like Burling got the start he wanted, first blood
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@jk i think the conditions too, right favoured as they started and then left at the top
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