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BACARDI Miami Sailing Week
Mark Reynolds & Magnus Liljedahl won the 55-boat Star fleet in Miami
Wrapping up a six-day schedule today, the 180 teams racing in six one-design classes – Audi Melges 20, J/70, Melges 24, Star, Viper 640 and VX One – completed enough races for the victors to collect the spoils, and, with the mid-day cancellation of additional races the sailors had ample time to enjoy the legendary hospitality of (...) -
Oracle Team USA
Andrew Campbell enters Jimmy Spithill’s crew
Skipper Jimmy Spithill and tactician/sailing team manager Tom Slingsby have introduced the crew who are participating in the team’s first training camp of the new America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup cycle. -
Oracle Team USA
Jimmy Spithill stays in the Defender team
Jimmy Spithill will return to ORACLE TEAM USA as the team re-builds with a focus on winning its third consecutive America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup . The youngest skipper to ever lead a team to victory in the competition for the oldest trophy in international sport, Spithill says the lure of working with team principal Larry (...) -
Kitesurf
Florian Gruber and Erika Heineken 2013 IKA Kiteboard Course Race World Champions
Reigning women’s kiteboard racing world champion Erika Heineken (USA) ended an almost flawless series to take successive titles on the final day of the event in China. But brother Johnny Heineken (USA) was deprived of a similar feat by the stellar racing of 19-year-old Florian Gruber (GER) who snatched to the International Kiteboarding (...) -
America’s Cup
9 - 8 : ORACLE TEAM USA stages massive comeback to win 34th America’s Cup
ORACLE TEAM USA won the 34th America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup in a winner-take-all 19th race, defeating challenger Emirates Team New Zealand by 44 seconds in today’s clincher. Led by 35-year-old skipper Jimmy Spithill, ORACLE TEAM USA won by the score of (...) -
America’s Cup
8 - 8 : ORACLE TEAM USA, Emirates Team New Zealand in winner-take-all race for the 34th America’s Cup
After staging an improbable comeback from 7 points behind and with no margin for error, ORACLE TEAM USA has forced a winner-take-all race tomorrow for the 34th America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup after sweeping both races today. -
America’s Cup
8 - 6 : ORACLE TEAM USA takes another step towards defending the America’s Cup
ORACLE TEAM USA’s improbable comeback is alive and well in the 34th America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup . Skipper Jimmy Spithill led the defender to another wire-to-wire victory in Race 16 and now needs just three more victories to successfully defend the America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup (...) -
America’s Cup
8 - 5 : ORACLE TEAM USA extends 34th America’s Cup with a pair of victories today over Emirates Team New Zealand
The defender won Race 14 by 23 seconds and Race 15 by 37 seconds in two wire-to-wire victories. ORACLE TEAM USA trails Emirates Team New Zealand 8-5 on the scoreboard and 8-7 in victories (the team’s first two victories weren’t counted due to a penalty imposed by the International Jury), but has won four straight since Emirates (...) -
America’s Cup
8 - 3 : Oracle Team USA gets lucky in race 13
Emirates Team New Zealand came within one nautical mile of winning the 34th America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup today, but then fell afoul of the 40-minute time limit. When Race 13 was re-sailed, the Kiwis were thwarted by a penalty and good speed Speed #speedsailing from defender ORACLE TEAM (...) -
America’s Cup
8 - 2 : ORACLE TEAM USA kept alive its hope of retaining the America’s Cup with a wire-to-wire win in Race 12
Skipper Jimmy Spithill and crew defeated challenger Emirates Team New Zealand by 31 seconds, aided by a 6-second jump off the start line. Spithill did a great job in the prestart, gaining a leeward hook with 20 seconds to the start that forced Emirates Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker to tack away to avoid the risk of a (...)