America's Cup changes considered as Challengers reduce

5:29 AM Fri 27 May 2011 GMT

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Top international yachting correspondent, Stuart Alexander peers through the fog shrouding the America's Cup and his his perspective in The Independent: Changes to the format of the America's Cup preliminary events are being considered in San Francisco by the holder, Larry Ellison's Oracle Racing Team, the sponsoring Golden Gate Yacht Club and the organisation they have set up to arrange regattas over the next 48 months, the America's Cup Event Authority (ACEA). Already having had to hold up the announcement about which of the 14 challenges received for America's Cup 34 can meet the qualification and financial requirements, ACEA, in ...

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by Stuart Alexander