Americas Cup

Re: Flower of the Mersey

ah yes .. spectators ... thinking of which, if the GB boat doesn't win, Boris will be sent down to console them ... ?!

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<<<by a very rich individual>>>

Not sure that is correct - for example, the Emirates Team NZ challenge is not, as far as I am aware, put together by any particularly rich individual. I think the same could be said of all the Connor challenges/defences - while he may be of "sufficient" wealth am not sure that he would qualify as being "very wealthy".

All it takes is a person or a group of people with sufficient energy and the will to win, with demonstrable ability to have a chance of doing so, to gain the sponsorship and interest of other financial backers. Perhaps, being inclined to look for excuses as to why one could not challenge is counter to those attributes.

John

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>>> AmCup challenges are not put together by a country, or the man in the street, but by a very rich individual who can afford to drop £20-50 million. Although sponsorship pays some part it is unlikely to be a sufficiently enticing opportunity to attract anything like the cost in sponsorship deals.

I think that Jack Hayward, who financed Chay Blyth's GB2, GB3 & GB4, is probably rich enough but he's achieved the Nirvana of rich men wanting to waste money by buying Wolves.


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