The cup will be live on TV
Posted by Havermeyer | Posted in General | Posted on 31-01-2007
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Good news for all avid sailors in the Middle East. My friend at Showtime Arabia who I have just seen on the press boat for the UBS Defender Trials has just confirmed that America’s Cup Act 13, the Louis Vitton Cup and the America’s Cup itself will all be shown live on Sportsnet World (or whatever it will be called then as they are rebranding apparently).
Apparently they’ve got the Premiership rights as well but who knows what that is…
Original post by Dubai Sailing and software by Elliott Back
Losing two races in a day doesn’t happen too often to the defender, Alinghi, so the final day’s racing in the round robin of Louis Vuitton Act 12 must have seemed like quite a slap in the face for the Swiss. 
Andrew Mlangeni is a revered figure in South Africa. He spent 26 years in prison along Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki and other prominent members of the African National Congress beginning in June 1964. Since the first democratic elections in 1994 he has been a Member of the South African Parliament. 
HM Constantine of Greece, Honorary President of the ISAF, and Goran Petersson, President of ISAF, were in Valencia to share a day at the Port America’s Cup and what follows are their impressions after soaking up the atmosphere. 
Alinghi, the defender of the 32nd America’s Cup, is beginning a final six month preparation phase for the America’s Cup Match which begins on June 23rd, 2007. The in-house trials will be divided into two events; one to be held in Dubai, to select the helmsman and afterguard for Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 13 and then another in Valencia to select the definitive sailing team. 
Valencian-born Juan Meseguer is a sail analyst working for BMW ORACLE. This is his second Cup campaign, having performed the same role for the Prada Challenge last time in Auckland. 
One of the most dramatic photos to have come out of the Louis Vuitton Act 10 this past week, is of bowman Brad Webb fighting to keep a foothold on board the new BMW ORACLE Racing boat, USA 87. 
After a brief trip around the city of Valencia, ESP 97 has turned up at the team’s base, packed like a Christmas present. 
Success at the Olympics in 1992 led to a chance meeting on a beach back in New Zealand a year later. “It feels like a time ago now. I was just helping a fellow Finn sailor out – Russell Coutts was his name – and he asked me to come and try out in the Cup boat. I thought, ‘OK, I’ll give it a go,’ and I’ve been a grinder ever since.” 
Desaf o Espa ol 2007 has signed American Paul Cayard to be a ’sport and technical advisor’ for the team. Cayard has sailed in five editions of the America’s Cup and won the Louis Vuitton Cup in 1992 as skipper on the Italian boat, Il Moro di Venezia.