Today: November 21, 2024
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If the America’s Cup defenders, Team New Zealand, led by Grant Dalton and Peter Burling, win the sailing competition for Spain in October, they will demonstrate for the fifth time that their small nation can best the big nation challengers. Can they…
America’s Cup winners are usually viewed as having triumphed by being at the forefront of technology or through the sailing skills of their team. But in entering its sixth challenge to the regatta, Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, team rather focuses on…
Bouncing back from a setback in the second Preliminary Regatta in Jeddah, America’s America Cup team is doubling down. They are ensuring the boats and teams are properly prepared. They have embarked on two-boat testing and their boat, “American Magic” has arrived…
Founded in a landlocked country, the Swiss entry in the America’s Cup surprised the sailing world when it not only won in 2003 but repeated the victory in 2007. Team Alinghi’s founder, Ernesto Bertarelli has now partnered with major sports sponsor, Red…
Lex Delles, Luxembourg’s Minister of the Economy, SME, Energy and Tourism is dealing with the economic legacy of Covid including inflation and high interest rates. However, he believes that strengthening entrepreneurship, cutting red tape and facilitating digital and green transitions will support…
The legacy of Richard Serra, who died in March, is vast. Not only did he produce a colossal catalog of works, but many of his artistic creations were huge, akin, in some eyes to ancient monuments and cathedrals. A defining feature of…
“One person cannot do everything…” says Stephen Kandler, who is Team Principal of France’s Orient Express Racing Team challenge in the 37th America’s Cup this October. But nor can a single technology which is why the French team is drawing on planes,…
