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Katie: Toasting the America's Cup

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Katie: Toasting the America's Cup
Nice ink.From a delightful post Wednesday on the blog of CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, who, as you will know from previous posts here on the BOB, was in Valencia and at our Team Base last week during the AC Match.... Earlier today, Alinghi, a lean, mean sailing machine from landlocked Switzerland, won the America?s Cup in a race that had spectators on the edge of their seats. The 17-man crew, led by an American and a New Zealander, crossed the finish line one second ahead of Emirates Team New Zealand, a younger, scrappier and very talented group of sailors who, in a best-of-nine series, really put up a fight. (Alinghi won 5-2.) If you had told me a year ago I?d be blogging about the America?s Cup, I would have thought the idea was nuts. I knew nothing about sailing. I barely knew the bow from the stern (I now know that the bow?s the front and the stern?s the back). Like most Americans, I saw sailing as elitist, not nearly as challenging or dynamic as baseball or football or basketball. I?ve heard people say it?s about as exciting as watching grass grow. Wrong. Sailing?s a beautiful, majestic sport, one that requires tremendous team effort. I can tell you this first-hand because I actually had an opportunity to go to the 32nd America?s Cup, the one that ended today. Since Switzerland has no coastline, the races were held in Valencia, Spain, in the gorgeous waters of the Mediterranean. I saw three races, and I?m hooked. In one, the lead changed half a dozen times, something I was told almost never happens. Winds shifted. Sailors scrambled. Sails blew out, sending wafts of red cloth high into the air and then into the sea. Full story Katie Couric with your Ed. after she attended the Morning Show last week. A new fan of the AC, she was a delight to have at our team base, where she stopped by on several occasions during the AC Match. Full Story »

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