America's Cup: Never fear, Bransons here

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Never fear, Bransons here

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Forum Name: America's Cup
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Topic: Never fear, Bransons here

Posted By: Laser 173312
Subject: Never fear, Bransons here
Date Posted: 12 Feb 10 at 8:51am

Apparently Richard Branson was in Valencia yesterday and is going to talk to Larry and Ernesto and get them to stop arguing, drop all the legal cases and generally be more plesant to each other.

He is also going to make sure the wind behaves itself for the next 5 days!

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Posted By: Contender443
Date Posted: 12 Feb 10 at 9:28am

video of his visit can be seen here

http://www.americascup.com/en/multimedia/video/index.php - http://www.americascup.com/en/multimedia/video/index.php

He does not look too impressed.

Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 12 Feb 10 at 10:58am

Beardy's small fry in the money stakes compared to the protagonists though, isn't he? And this is, affter all, about money

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