Americas Cup -Shosholoza boss plea from ICU

[lyc]

Shosholoza boss Salvatore Sarno from his hospital bed in the ICU ward says that Couts, Ehman & Ellison "You are destroying small teams."

Is he right? What now for the America's Cup if the smaller teams have to pull out?

 

[machurley22]

Sadly, the Americas Cup seems to have become the sort of event in which Machiavelli would have excelled.

 

[Twister_Ken]

"Sadly, the Americas Cup seems to have become the sort of event in which Machiavelli would have excelled. "

Twas always so.

 

[wotayottie]

You dont get to be mega rich without being a nasty agressive bast*rd, and the Americas Cup is a competition between the mega rich. Not surprisingly, it becomes a nasty agressive competition, with little sportsmanship.

Mind you they someitmes get thier come-uppance. Like when the kiwis built that horrible aircraft carrier type mono and Connors stuffed them with a cat. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Rob_Webb]

If you read the history of the AC you would see that the latest spat is nothing unusual at all and merely the latest turn in a history of court cases, rich men's tantrums and unsportsmanlike behaviour - occassionally interspersed with some sailing.

But fair to say if you look at the era of Team New Zealand winning and holding the Cup, it's a period in the history of the event when the winning team was fronted by a rather more sporting and statesman-like figure than today's backers, in the form of Sir Peter Blake, of course.