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Emirates Team New Zealand built a 6-2 lead over INEOS Britannia in the America’s Cup finals on Friday to move just one point away from successfully defending the oldest trophy in international ...
The 2024 America's Cup was the 37th staging of the America's Cup yacht race. It was contested from 12 October 2024 as a first-to-seven-wins match-race series in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, between Taihoro, representing the defender, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron; [2] and Britannia, representing the Royal Yacht Squadron of the United Kingdom, which won the Louis Vuitton Challenger ...
The America's Cup is a sailing competition and the oldest international competition still operating in any sport. [1] [2] [3] America's Cup match races are held between two sailing yachts: one from the yacht club that currently holds the trophy (known as the defender) and the other from the yacht club that is challenging for the cup (the challenger).
Emirates Team New Zealand clinched match point in the 37th America’s Cup on Saturday, beating INEOS Britannia 7-2 in the best-of-13 final off Barcelona’s beachfront. The team led by Grant ...
In the National Hockey League in North America, a system described as "the three point win" was proposed in 2004, with three points for a win in regulation time, two for a win in overtime, and one for a tie. This proposal was put on hold by the 2004–05 NHL lock-out and subsequently rejected by team owners in February 2007. [54]
Women have sailed in previous America’s Cups but none are on the crews of this edition of the 173-year-old regatta. Italy's Luna Rossa wins first Women's America's Cup after beating British boat ...
A total of 12 races were contested during the double round-robin seeding round. [6] [7] All races were 6 legs (3 upwind and 3 downwind), except for Race 7 which was 8 legs (Excess wind), Race 9 which was 4 legs (Course Shorten mid race [8]), Race 10 which was 5 legs (Light winds) and Race 12 which was 4 legs (Light winds).
The America's Cup races have been contested using many historical classes in the past. For the 2021 series Team ENTZ developed a new class of 75-foot (23-meter) foiling monohulls named the America's Cup 75 or AC75. [40] [41] The boats were required to be "constructed in country". [42] Teams were allowed to build two boats each. [12]