![Dana Johannsen: Heavy toll on Oracle](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=794)
Dana Johannsen: Heavy toll on Oracle
Dana Johannsen looks at how Oracle will fare, now it's lost two precious race points down the gurgler and has had its team decimated by race bans.
Dana Johannsen looks at how Oracle will fare, now it's lost two precious race points down the gurgler and has had its team decimated by race bans.
Oracle will start the America's Cup on minus-two points and the team were fined $250,000 as penalty for cheating during AC World Series.
The formula used to treat patients with cholera has spurred a new sports rehydration drink developed by a company with links to both Auckland and San Francisco.
The idea came about for it this time last year because I did a bunch of work with Puma for the Volvo Ocean Race.
It sounds nigh on unbelievable but the two Kiwi principals at the helm of the Americas Cup campaign have never spoken to each other.
The battle between the two Kiwi teams is shaping as an interesting sub-plot to the Red Bull Youth America's Cup.
Emirates Team New Zealand say they are very happy with the final modifications to their AC72 catamaran.
Regardless of the outcome in the jury room this week, the sorry saga of the Oracle Team USA cheating claims has already cost the team dearly
Even at the youth America's Cup there is a vast difference between the haves and have nots.
It has always seemed strange that San Francisco - a city famed for its hilly topography and notoriously steep streets - is considered a cyclist-friendly town.
The saddest thing about the cheating allegations being decided upon by the America's Cup international jury is that few people outside the sailing community really understand them.
There is growing speculation that as many as six Oracle Team USA members may be expelled from the America's Cup this week.
It was May, 2011 and a tornado was upsetting the equilibrium of Birkenhead, on Auckland's North Shore. Out at Tiritiri Matangi, about 30km from base, Emirates Team New Zealand's equilibrium wasn't much better.
Luna Rossa skipper Max Sirena admits it was no easy task to convince his team to get back on the water this week and lend Emirates Team New Zealand a hand with their America's Cup preparations.
Expect some noticeable changes when Team New Zealand roll the boat they hope to race to win the America's Cup out of the shed today.
The big news in the America's Cup world this week is not what has been happening out on the water in the youth fleet, but what has been going on behind closed doors in the jury room.
Restaurateur Tony Stewart is thankful this week's break in racing in San Francisco will allow his staff at Waiheke Island Yacht Club to regroup and brace themselves.
Oracle Team USA yesterday damaged a wing sail but are not expected to be seriously affected in preparations for the America's Cup match against Team New Zealand.
This one isn't so much David v Goliath, but Cain v Abel. Coutts is Barker's tormentor. He's our hero turned tormentor, writes Chris Rattue.
The man who kicked it all off for Team New Zealand believes for the America's Cup to draw the competitors back in a nationality clause needs to be reinstated.
There's something slightly surreal about sitting on the deck of the schooner America - after which the America's Cup was named - on a windy day in San Francisco Bay.
Who is the Swiss-Italian billionaire who has his hand partially on the tiller of a Kiwi victory and who Grant Dalton credits as saving Team New Zealand?
Oracle Team USA wanted him, but Team NZ landed the man who was tutoring Jimmy Spithill.
Another day in the America's Cup and another frivolous jury challenge. Only this time, Luna Rossa's protest against Team NZ was done with tongue firmly in cheek.
Kiwi Stephen Barclay will play one of the key roles in helping to decide whether Oracle Team USA could be expelled from the America's Cup or be penalised heavily/
Team New Zealand will begin their final charge ahead of their America's Cup showdown with Oracle.
Waterfront Auckland is exploring six waterfront locations in the event Team New Zealand win the America's Cup and bring the Auld Mug back to the City of Sails.
Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa's unique collaborative approach to the 34th America's Cup will continue in the coming weeks.