Alinghi to race in Valencia
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Alinghi sailing team will face its challenger BMW-Oracle in Valencia, Spain, in the best of three races in February 2010. Société Nautique de Genève (SNG), the Geneva, Switzerland sailing club that Alinghi represents, says that the Golden Gate Yacht Club, which is represented by BMW-Oracle, has not replied to its suggestion a week ago that the race be held in waters off the east coast of Australia. Thus the only other venue open to it legally, in order to comply with the February date, is Valencia.
The New York Supreme Court, the final arbiter in the legal disagreement between the two teams, previously rejected SNG’s choice of venue in the Persian Gulf, and said the race must be held in Valencia. Alinghi said in its letter to Justice Shirley Kornreich10 November, “SNG believes that the 33rd America’s Cup must be decided in February 2010 on the water rather than in the Courts of New York State.”
Alinghi published the official notification of the race (NOR) at the same time it sent the letter sent to Kornreich.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 10 November 2009.
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