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Oracle makes a comeback! Team USA wins the 34th America's Cup..
Daily Mail UK ^ | September 25, 2013 | Reuters Reporter

Posted on 09/25/2013 2:31:01 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing

Skipper Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA won the 34th America's Cup today in one of the greatest comebacks in sports history.

Spithill steered Oracle's space-age, 72-foot catamaran to its eighth straight victory, speeding past Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand in the winner-take-all Race 19 on San Francisco Bay to keep the oldest trophy in international sports in the United States.

All but defeated a week ago, the 34-year-old Australian and his international crew twice rallied from seven-point deficits to win 9-8 Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: americas; cup; oracle; sailing; usa
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To: slorunner

bump


41 posted on 09/25/2013 4:58:29 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Well done, Sir Ben Ainslie! Such a winner.


42 posted on 09/25/2013 5:58:52 PM PDT by everydayislikesunday
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To: 1rudeboy; humblegunner

Only for drinkin’ shootin’ eatin’ and heavy metal concerts.
(not necessarily all at the same time)


43 posted on 09/25/2013 6:05:27 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Doogle

Cool boat


44 posted on 09/25/2013 6:07:05 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: smokingfrog

Just not readin’, right?


45 posted on 09/25/2013 6:08:26 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

winner


46 posted on 09/25/2013 6:08:26 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: everydayislikesunday

A bunch of foreigners funded by an international corporation is “TEAM USA”?


47 posted on 09/25/2013 6:33:08 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: 1rudeboy

He reads real good.


48 posted on 09/25/2013 6:45:16 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: slorunner
I really don't see much point in having (reinstating, see below) nationality requirements; that horse left the barn decades ago. Consider the sailing teams like any good EPL team - does anyone really care that Manchester United's, Man City's, Liverpool's or Arsenal's, et al, best players aren't UK? Or not even European.

Up until probably the mid-80s, there were very stringent AC requirements about everything relating to the boat being from the defender's & challenger's country - design, tank-testing facilities, build, spars, sails, crew. Everything. When Australia II won the Cup in 1983 there was some evidence that the famous winged-keel wasn't 100% Ozzie in design. Caused quite a bit of a ruckus but nothing could be proven - point being the restrictions were in place at least until then.

Many thought that the restrictions gave the US / NYYC too much of an advantage, especially in sails. While there were good sailmakers around the world when the Cup started up again with 12 Meters, we had the lock on sail cloth - Ted Hood's Dacron cloth was far superior to any competitor's anywhere. Hood Sails ruled the world, but weren't available to AC Challengers.

The game has gone from ~95% amateur back in the 60's to100% professional now. Too late to put the genie back in the bottle, nor is there a need to, imho.

49 posted on 09/25/2013 7:23:35 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: KarlInOhio

You’re not implying that “space age” is cliché?


50 posted on 09/25/2013 7:34:13 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Vendome

1-—I will put last year’s Miracle at Medinah against this anyday. From 10-4 down on Saturday night to 14.5 by Sunday night. Europe’s golfers needed to win EVERY singles match, in front of a vocal US crowd. And they did. The greatest golf/RC comeback of all time and as great as this.

2—Greatest comeback in sports?. By which you will mean American sports, as like 95+% of Americans, with all due respect, you don’t know anything about soccer or rugby or cricket or other major non-North American sports and your knowledge of greatest comebacks is limited to US gridiron, ice hockey, baseball and basketball.


51 posted on 09/26/2013 3:00:23 AM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: Vendome

What an adventure.

I miss the monohulls and wish they’d go back to them for the Cup. Save these 72Cats for another series.
As far as the international crew, I ‘ m with you. Pretty ridiculous having few or no nationals on the boat.

One thing I admired Ted Turner for was his sailing.


52 posted on 09/26/2013 3:44:34 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Vinnie

I miss them too but, what the hell!

Freakin amazing!

There has been quite a bit of talk, even from Ellison, about making the race more affordable to other teams.

It’s not gonna be so exciting without a playoffs, so to speak, with several other teams.

This was fun to see but, would like to see more realistic boats.

I’d like own a 130’ yacht myself one day but, ain’t nothing like being on the water on a 37 footer.


53 posted on 09/26/2013 7:26:49 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: the scotsman

LOL

Those aren’t American sports.

The Medina ting was pretty damned kewel but, I can’t watch golf for very long.

I luv to watch sports that I play. Snowboarding, skiing, rock, ice and mountain climbing. Cycling of any kind. Surfing. Most pugilistic sports. Sailing.


54 posted on 09/26/2013 7:30:22 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome

I know they aren’t: baseball is English, ice hockey and basketball are Canadian, gridiron is the son of English rugby.


55 posted on 09/26/2013 9:54:27 AM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: the scotsman

To be fair The Americas Cup is a British invention.

They threw the challenge out to the world.

Only the United States answered the challenge. Sending their boat while”America” and sweeping the race.

We renamed the race after that boat.

Signed

Norm


56 posted on 09/26/2013 10:40:13 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

When did they start allowing catamarans enter the America’s Cup, which is a yacht race? Also, how can a team of foreigners winning be a triumph for U.S. boat racing?


57 posted on 09/26/2013 10:56:11 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Vendome

Is it?. Sailing isn’t my thing.

Don’t get me wrong, my friend, I think the comeback is incredible and one of the greatest. I just wonder if it is THE greatest. Maybe it is, maybe I am being too harsh. After all, its only sport. I am not going to bust a blood vessel arguing. Maybe you are right after all.

I’d also like to see the competitors come from the correct nations. Otherwise Team USA or Team NZ is worthless.


58 posted on 09/26/2013 11:10:20 AM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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To: the scotsman

Oh, I don’t get you wrong.

We’re all friends here.


59 posted on 09/26/2013 11:18:34 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: the scotsman

Besides yer Scot as am I.


60 posted on 09/26/2013 11:19:43 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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