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America's Cup: How Ben Ainslie led Oracle Team USA to remarkable 9-8 victory over Emirates Team New Zealand
By: CR17 Added: 05-07-14
Fast boats win races and Oracle Team USA won the America's Cup in one of the most remarkable comebacks in any game.

From 1-8 down in the second half they beat Emirates Team New Zealand on San Francisco Bay by 9-8 and that was after they had had to clear a two-point penalty deficit.
It should have been a best of 17 in the 34th America's Cup but Oracle had to win 11 races to retain the cup they so brutally snatched from Swiss holder Ernesto Bertarelli in Valencia in 2010.

Britain's Olympic four-time gold medallist, the recently knighted Sir Ben Ainslie, became the caped crusader who flew to the rescue of a campaign heading for the beach. From struggling to match the New Zealanders' 72-foot wing-powered catamaran, and on the brink at 1-8 down in a first to nine wins series, the American Eagle swooped on the nocturnal kiwi and rendered it flightless.

If you wanted a gang of streetfighters on your side, the trio of Australian skipper Jimmy Spithill, tactician Ainslie and another Australian, strategist Tom Slingsby, would do very nicely. The well brought up and beautifully behaved duo http://www.professionailservices.co.nz/images/dre-beats-nz.asp of skipper Dean Barker and tactician Ray Davies on ETNZ increasingly http://www.professionailservices.co.nz/images/dre-beats-nz.asp looked like rabbits in the headlights as Ainslie - with Slingsby playing an equally important and matching role - shattered the hopes of the whole New Zealand nation.

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