4-2 Alinghi!!!!
In a previous post, I stated the Cup would be 5.2 or 5-3 either side. Yesterday's victory by Alinghi was a a strike of luck, as NZ, when starting to make a peel to replace her spinnaker (which had a quarter sized hole in it while trailing Alinghi, when the new spinnaker was being hoisted, the torn spinnaker blew in pieces and the new one hour-glassed... That forced them to retrieve it and hoist a third one. When they recovered, Alinghi was way ahead of them.
Today the history went different. In very light conditions (which I find better suited for NZ), and in the second beat, Alinghi was able to out sail NZ by taking the right gate and sailing into the right, which after a short tacking duel allowed them to turn a 20 meters lead by NZ into a 20 meters lead to themselves... From then on, they lead the race.
In the America's Cup, there are no points to second places. And I agree with most writers and commentators, this is the closest and most exciting Cup in recent history (I've been following the Cup since the early nineties)...
Good Lord this is FUN!!!
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Copa américa de qué?
Pero é veldá que no me va a decir de qué carajo es esa copa?
Se trata de la verdadera America's Cup, la de vela... Todo comenzó en el 1851 cuando el schooner America ganó la copa de las 100 Guineas, en una regata que se corría alrededor de la Isla Wight en Gran Bretaña... posteriormente se convirtió en la Copa América.
Dato curioso, Los EUA tienen el record de mas años consecutivos defendiendo un trofeo -entre todos los deportes- al retener la copa por 132 años consecutivos...
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