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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:16 pm 
Holy Crap, Oracle took a big dip and put the bow hard into the water. But they are back up and racing fast, close to Emirates, they just tacked over and are up on their foils.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:23 pm
Wow this is so amazing, they are almost dead even, trading the lead back and forth, crossing each other as they race down the course!!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:27 pm
Oracle has aobut a 150 meter lead but now Emirates have more speed than Oracle.
Kiwis Barker tells his crew to work their butts off, LOL.
Oracle is still ahead and you can hear the sailors really breathing hard as they grind.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:29 pm
This one will go down to the wire!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:32 pm
So far, USA is ahead, but have hit slower speed, wind keeps shifting.
At gate 3 Oracle has a big lead, looks like a 26 second lead and Kiwis are looking for wind and speed.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:37 pm
Wow, Oracle is over 600 meters ahead of Emirates. But Emirates has speed about 10 mph (or however sailing speed is measured) on Oracle.
Both boats are foiling and Oracle makes the turn for home at mark 4, they are ahead and are going to win. I can't believe it.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:38 pm
ORACLE WINS!!!!!!! HOLY COW!!
Emirates comes in 44 seconds later. I feel bad for them since they were only one race away from taking the cup.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:40 pm
Oh my, the tugboats are shooting water into the air as Oracle and Emirates sail by.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:41 pm
LOL, Oracle does a flyby of the park and it looks like they practically hit the docks, LOL.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:41 pm
WOW!! Thanks soooo much. I am in a hotel room that does not have NBC sports. I cannot believe how hard it has been to find out about the America's Cup. It's not on any of the sports networks at all!! You have been my lifeline until the race is posted on You tube.
Oracle winning has to be the best comeback EVER! I am so glad that I went down to see a few of the races!
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:43 pm
There has to be something going on in the Kiwi boat in order for them to lose 8 straight.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:51 pm
They kept saying that the boats were evenly matched, but apparently not.
I'm hoping that the next America's Cup will be in SF as well. If it is, I'll be there!!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:51 pm
I know Kookliebird, I have been saying that for a while, it doesn't make sense. Or did Oracles engineers really change that boat so much to make it a faster boat.
What a pretty site it was to see Oracle sailing away with about 10-20 boats following behind.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:52 pm
OMG, I just saw that some of the ORacle sailors, bent over the sides patting the boat in thanks.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:55 pm
The thing they did was put Ben Kingsley as tactician. THAT, plus the boat tweeks made the difference
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 1:59 pm
I wish I could have seen the race. It would have been so exciting to see in person!
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 2:05 pm
It's really annoying... I 'liked' the America's Cup page on Facebook. The post that says that Oracle USA had the most amazing comeback and won was great with a nice photo. Except that some of the comments were so negative. Saying the best team lost, the race was rigged, they should go back to regular boats AND money bought the race. The last one is the most annoying of all. Does anyone really believe that Team NZ didn't have any money behind it? Plus, this sport is all about money. What is wrong with people?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 4:10 pm
I don't know, people are so weird these days.
Can you get online to the actual site, they may have a playback of the race.
Today it was also on my regular NBC Channel as well, bumped Days of our Lives, LOL.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 4:22 pm
They have a You-tube site that I can see the race on, but I don't have cable at home, so I could not watch it via the NBC site.
I'm in Phoenix right now. I checked the regular NBC channel, but all they had was days of our lives.
I'll watch the you tube in a few minutes.
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Diesel_dan
Member
08-12-2008
| Saturday, January 31, 2015 - 7:22 pm
No Kookliebird, the Red Sox, down 3 games to none, and winning four straight to beat the Yankees in the 2004 AL Championships, is the best comeback!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, May 29, 2017 - 10:54 am
America's cup Qualifiers started Saturday! They are airing on NBCSC and they are excellent, racing in Bermuda. It is really beautiful.
There is a new thing on a few boats...feet grinders. Instead of grinding with their arms they are riding bikes, at least that is what it looks like, so weird.
So far the races have been great, Sweden, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, USA, Japan competing. I was surprised there is no Australia team but there are a ton of Aussies on the boats, LOL.
And WOW, are the boats fast.
https://www.americascup.com/en/event-schedule.html
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, May 29, 2017 - 12:31 pm
I'll have to see what coverage is available in Canada!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, May 29, 2017 - 1:14 pm
I think there is a site with live streaming, when I was researching I think I saw a link but since it will be on NBCSC every day at 10am I am good so I didn't pursue the link.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 1:09 pm
Where is the America's Cup finale this year? When I went to San Francisco, it was so amazing.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 5:15 pm
It's in Bermuda this year.
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