Friday, July 03, 2009

Two years ago this day Alinghi won the 32nd America's Cup in Valencia

Time flies. It was exactly 2 years ago that Alinghi won the 32nd America's Cup here in Valencia and, rightly so, all sailors and fans started a fun-blasted joyful celebration. If only they knew what tremendous blunder their lawyers were about to commit by accepting a paper yacht club as Challenger of Record for the 33rd America's Cup. Eight days later, BMW Oracle issued a challenge and on the 20th of July they started their legal action in the NY State Supreme Court. The rest is history.

Alinghi wins the 32nd America's Cup. Valencia, 3 July 2007. Video copyright Alinghi

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4 Comments:

At 4:44 PM, Anonymous WetHog said...

Thanks for the blast from the past Mr. Pierre. Truely a great race andt the finish was fabulous. Despite all the crap that has come since, at least to me, the greatness of that race has not been tarnished.

 
At 4:44 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Best EVER Americas Cup!

 
At 12:20 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am not so sure about time flying by. It feels so long since being in warm Valencia celebrating the best Cup ever. At least we we can look back at that amongst all the drama since. Go Alinghi!

 
At 3:07 PM, Anonymous Russ said...

Anyone know where I can get a copy of this video ? It's like ,Wow ! In stores ? Amazon ? Thanks.

 

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