34th America's Cup andgic Buttons

11:41 AM Sun 1 May 2011 GMT

'34th America's Cup' Leighton O'Connor ?

Last Wednesday, I was invited to a press conference in New Zealand wrapping up the third day of testing the AC45's. Unfortunately, I had to journey down under via a conference call. The kick off time was 4PM their time - midnight my time. I figured what the heck. Conan is all repeats this week and Letterman has been pretty lame lately. I was late in getting dialled in because my land-line didn't like the conference call software. I joined the press conference in mid sentence of Principal Race Officer John Craig as he described how protests will be handled, ...

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by Leighton O'Connor