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...genuine underdogs don't come along very often. Only once has the Cup ever been won by a first-time challenger. That happened in 2003, when the Swiss Team Alinghi defeated Team New Zealand in Auckland, bringing the cup to Europe for the first time since a U.S. boat won the Auld Mug, in a race off the Isle of Wight back in 1851. Africa's yachting tradition is limited, to put it kindly. Though sailors in eastern and western Africa skillfully navigate the seas in traditional craft, yacht racing has been limited in most countries to small clubs with...
...counted on spirit. In Malmö, Sweden, last August, Shosholoza won its first victories against boats from Sweden and China. Then in the final round of events in Sicily last October, the South Africans placed fifth out of the 12 competing teams. The Louis Vuitton Cup starts up again on May 11. "We're definitely surprising a lot of teams," says Ian Ainslie, a veteran Olympic sailor, and one of the more experienced crew members. "Our competitors are giving us a lot more respect than they would have done a year ago." The South Africans know they are loved...
...said, “but having more people vying for spots and the internal competition has bred more success for the team.”And the result of this is a team that is faster and more powerful—from top to bottom.“Your boat is only as fast as the ninth person on the team,” Bates said. “You can’t rank people, so the strength of your team really depends on everyone performing at their best.”The strength of the team has also...
...right, was from a device far less complex, far more economical and far more "transportable" than Ivy's. Then, last month, came the U.S. explosion that Strauss described as being twice the estimated size. It became famous prematurely because an unexpected wind shift showered a Japanese fishing boat with radioactive ash. But the March 1 explosion (and the one that followed on March 26) had even more serious implications: in the global game of the scientists, where scores are read in terms of seismographic reports and air samplings, it notified the Russians that the score was more than even...
...performance of the spring season en route to an easy first-place finish.Harvard swept both divisions on its way to just 225 points, 26 ahead of second-place Boston College. Senior Vincent Porter shared time with captain Clay Johnson at the skipper position in A-division’s boat while senior Ruth Schlitz handled crew duties. The B-division saw sophomore skipper Kyle Kovacs and freshman crew Jon Garrity take first-place by a five-point margin over Georgetown, which faltered a bit in A-division on its way to an eighth-place finish. South Florida, St. Mary?...