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    Posted: 01 Apr 08 at 3:12pm

Interesting day for all this 'news' to come out...
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Blast!  For one second I dreamt of an end to the d!ck waving contest formerly known as the America's Cup  .

SA's blocked from my work PC so, of course, I'll just have to take your word for it.



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Luckily Alinghi have been bought and are now sponsored by McLaren! Team McLaren will represent the SNG, the Cup is back on.

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Well, I doubt that the UBS story is a joke, but the AC being cancelled???
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more like a whopper
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 Blimey, thats a biggy.

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Alinghi's primary sponsor, the Swiss bank UBS, has had to write-off an extra $20 Billion today as a result of the sub-prime credit crunch.  See BBC item here.  This is in addition to the $18 billion it had already written off.  I have heard, from a very good source,that as a result Alinghi is unable to host the next America's Cup and has withdrawn from it court case with the Golden Gate Yacht Club (Team Oracle).  There is no America's Cup!
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