Fans & supporters turned out in numbers everyday at Auckland's waterfront, Shed 10. The emotion & faith was always strong, watching, waiting but to no avail. Oracle clenching the win in race 19 of the 34th America's Cup.

"It's very hard to swallow." The first words from losing Emirates Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker, coupled with his ashen face, showed the pain of top level international sport. Barker and Grant Dalton reflect on the last three years and today's disappointment. courtesy America's Cup.

It was winner take all. And Oracle Team USA took it. Read how they did it, here.

Each morning Lisa Sutton heads down to Shed 10 to watch the racing in her red socks, a flag round her shoulders and a bottle of cold champagne.

There seems little chance of a legal challenge if Oracle Team USA are pipped at the post in their America's Cup comeback today.

As painful as the last week has been for most Kiwis following the events in San Francisco, it hurts even more to know that nobody in the United States seems to care.

Team NZ can still win the Cup. They still need the same recipe - and are still perfectly capable of following it: predict the weather perfectly, mode the boat perfectly, win the start, be first to the bottom mark, cover the opposition's every move, sail perfectly. That's a lot of "perfectlys" but this is a team capable of perfection. But that one race is proving chillingly elusive.

Oracle won both races this morning to pull level with Team New Zealand on the America's Cup scoreboard.

New Zealanders will support their taxpayer dollars going towards any America's Cup defence - but Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce says such talk is premature.

There are two races set down for today - that's if the arcane rules governing this regatta permit two races to be held.

While the skipper of Team New Zealand is utterly determined to bring the Auld Mug home.

Team NZ still need that one precious race win, while Oracle now need three to successfully defend the America's Cup. Skippers Barker and Spithill are both confident that the America's Cup will be theirs.

He was considered Team New Zealand's lucky charm earlier in the regatta, but team boss Grant Dalton has curiously been left out of the crew for the past four days of racing.

OTUSA have now won the last four races to be sailed in a row. Team NZ were leading the last three races to be called off. Oracle's downwind and reaching speed became starkly clear. They have a faster boat downwind and, as there are two downwind legs, their advantage by a couple of knots is significant.

At the post race press conference, it was an audible murmur of disapproval that accompanied the NZ journalist question comparing past All Black failures at World Cups to a possible Team NZ loss at the America's Cup.

Eden Park provokes both reactions - a traditional love of the place and dislike sparked by the belief that it is out-moded and poorly located.

The 34th America's Cup is a made-for-TV event. And boy, do TV networks hate it when a not-so-high-rating sport botches the schedule.

Variations on the "Are they racing?" inquiry infested my household at the weekend.

Team NZ fans & supporters were once again disappointed after racing was postponed due to weather conditions. The faithful stay strong and amidst the disappointment and frustration, most feel it only delays the inevitable and tomorrow could bring a promising result.

Relive all the 'action' from this morning's abandoned attempt at race 14 of the 34th America's Cup.

Auckland's Waterfront Shed 10 & the Cloud were both filled to capacity this morning but, the hopes of joy soon faded into frustration. Supporters and fans remain faithful, they will be back at sunrise for what hopes to be history in the making.

Kiwis have been close but not quite won the America's cup and kiwis and supporters of New Zealand decided to camp out at the Moa Bar at the finish line and make themselves at home, get a few clothes clean, play some back yard cricket, have a kip on the beds. courtesy 90secendsTV.

New Zealand's cruel residence on the precipice of America's Cup ownership continued today with yet another weather intervention ushering in a big loss to Oracle Team USA.

Relive all the drama from race 13 of the America's Cup in San Francisco.

More than a million New Zealanders have been watching the America's Cup live online, adding to the hundreds of thousands viewing the racing on television.

An excited roar ripples through Shed 10 like a stiff breeze sweeping across San Francisco Bay. The impossible has happened. The wind has dropped and race two - against all expectations - is actually going to happen.

They've shouted, bellowed and sighed their way upwind and downwind with us on TV and radio. We rate how they've performed.