America's Cup: Challengers reduce to 14 teams, others miss bond date?

12:14 AM Fri 6 May 2011 GMT

'Day 4 - America's Cup Media Trials' Gilles Martin-Raget/Oracle Racing.com Click Here to view large photo

34th America's Cup Regatta Director Iain Murray told Sail-World this morning that one of the teams that had lodged a Notice of Challenge with the Defender, Golden Gate Yacht Club had been declined. When the entries were announced at the closing date at the end of March 2011, there were ten named teams, five teams who had asked their details be kept confidential, and two of those were listed as being subject to vetting by the Defender, Golden Gate Yacht Club. The fifteen teams listed included Oracle Racing, the America's Cup Defender. While Murray would not reveal the name or ...

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by Richard Gladwell