34th America's Cup: New Challenger of Record appointed

6:10 PM Tue 17 May 2011 GMT

'The Swedish Challenger KSSS and their team Artemis Racing, becomes Challenger of Record for 34th America's Cup' Americas Cup Media

Following the announcement last Thursday by Mascalzone Latino principal Vicenzo Onorato, that he was pulling out of the 34th America's Cup for financial reasons, a new Challenger of Record has been appointed. While Mascalzone Latino, the team of the Challenger of Record, Club Nautico di Roma, had raised some sponsorship it was not sufficient for them to mount a competitive (read 'winning' ) challenge and the team principal made the decision not to proceed further. No announcement was made at the time by America's Cup organisers, or the Challenger of Record club itself. For an organisation which seems to produce ...

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by Richard Gladwell