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TROIA PORTUGAL MATCH CUP
Troia: Friday July 27th 2007
Two of the three French skippers who started the day in the quarter finals have been eliminated as the final four are decided. Philippe Presti and the Tour leader, Mathieu Richard, were defeated along with Paolo Cian (ITA) and Alvaro Marinho (POR) in a long day of racing [...]

On to the Quarter Finals

TROIA PORTUGAL MATCH CUP
Troia: Thursday July 26th 2007
LAST EIGHT DECIDED
In four flights of racing this afternoon, six of the quarter finalists were decided, but it took another five flights, well into the evening, before the other two were able to claim their places. Throughout the day the northerly wind persisted in direction, although it [...]

Troia Portugal Match Cup – Day 1

Troia: Wednesday July 25th 2007
At the end of the first day’s racing in the Troia Portugal Match Cup, only three of the twelve skippers have unbeaten records. Gavin Brady (NZL) of the BMW Oracle Racing Team won all three of his matches in the round robin, as did Peter Gilmour (AUS) of the Pizza-La [...]

Troia Portugal Match Cup – Preview

TROIA PORTUGAL MATCH CUP
Troia: Tuesday July 24th 2007
The third event in this year’s World Match Racing Tour begins tomorrow with the opening round robin of the Troia Portugal Match Cup. Twelve skippers will meet each of the others once and the top scoring eight helmsmen will progress to the knock out stages of the [...]

Musings on the 2012 Olympics

TROIA PORTUGAL WOMEN’S MATCH CUP
Troia: Tuesday July 24th 2007
THE LESSONS OF TROIA
After this successful event, there can be no doubt that Women’s Match Racing has a place in the Olympic Regatta. It fulfils all the necessary criteria of the International Olympic Committee, particularly with regard to its suitability for television, and it is this [...]

Troia Women’s Match Racing – Day 4

TROIA PORTUGAL WOMEN’S MATCH CUP
Troia: Monday July 23rd 2007:
AXHEDE SUCEEDS
Jenny Axhede of Sweden emerged the triumphal victor of the Troia Portugal Women’s Match Cup, defeating Sally Barkow of the United States by three races to one in an action-packed final the finished shortly before sunset. It was a final in which wind shifts and [...]

Troia Women’s Match Racing – Day 3

BARKOW LEADS AFTER ROUNDS ROBIN:
The United States skipper, Sally Barkow, was the leader at the end of the second round robin of this Grade 1 event at the Portuguese resort at Troia. She began the day with three wins that took her total to 12 for only one defeat.
The first race was an enthralling [...]

The Current State of the America’s Cup

Billionaires are battling over the future of the America’s Cup, and while there is nothing unique in this, it is a bitter struggle that could see the event delayed to await courtroom decisions. One billionaire’s club holds the trophy and another’s doesn’t like the way in which the event is threatened to be run.
Johnnies-come-lately [...]

SINS FUNDS TO GOOD CAUSE

The Society of International Scribes (SINS) held its traditional “bash” on the first lay day of the America’s Cup on the roof of the Shosholoza base, courtesy of that challenger with the sponsorship of the web weather system gurus at ClearPoint, whose Matthew Piette was present, and further cooperation of Line 7, whose Ross Munro [...]