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The American syndicate refuses to compete in what they define as Alinghi’s Cup.

America’s Cup Valencia provides conventional house in July 2010 is again in danger. The BMW Oracle yesterday threw earth any possibility of reaching an amicable agreement to end the legal battle that remained in suspense to the sailing competition since the end of the previous edition. The union of San Francisco, who represents the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC), announced through his Commodore Marcus Young, the decision not to participate in a regatta at which ironically named as FIFA’s Alinghi. The resolution of the dispute is therefore definitely in the hands of judges New Yorkers. And that translates into more time waiting and uncertainty. The letter sent by Marcus Young to his counterpart in Geneva Nautical Society (SNG), Pierre-Yves Firmenich, is blunt and is a blow just a few days of the meeting that the participating teams in that hypothetical Copa America 2010 in Valencia should hold in Switzerland the next day on December 15. GGYC’s arguments have not changed. The union considers illegitimate the U.S. next Copa America, as conceived Alinghi, to understand that not met the terms of the rules of the competition, the Deed of Gift. “The Court of New York has given the date of February 10 2009 to present oral arguments and it is hoped that the outcome of our appeal is known in March, which seems to us a reasonable delay to make decisions on future America’s Cup, “says Commodore of the Yacht Club of San Francisco. These time limits do not match the Swiss team that handles. According to his legal services, the failure of the seven judges who comprise the Court of Appeals for the State of New York will not arrive before May, and could even be postponed until July. If the sentence, against which no longer include a subsequent appeal, Alinghi is favorable to the path is cleared for Valencia. But if Oracle comes out victorious in the courts all plans will be altered. In the latter case, the process restarts and the counter is reset to zero. The 33rd Copa America happen to be a duel between at least 15 unions to become a face to face Alinghi-Oracle with multihulls. According to the founding document of the competition, their dispute was postponed 10 months. And as the defender of the Hundred Guineas Mug reserves the right to choose the seat of the race, and already has opted for the Northern Hemisphere, the first valid date is May 1, 2010. Commodore of the Oracle defends his approach and accused of lack of dialogue with the Swiss: “In the past 17 months we have made many constructive suggestions which have been systematically rejected by the NGA, he has written its own rules for the next edition of the Cup . ” And once again discredit the Club Nautico Español de Vela (CNEVA) as the first challenging Alinghi. “We need a qualified challenger of the record, strong and independent and now poses a different kind of race, but without many top-level competitors, without major sponsors, without taking into account the 157-year history of the competition, so that the position of the NGA can not be a Copa America, will be only one Cup Alinghi, and this is not a good reason for us to participate. ” The Swiss response came a few hours later, to accuse of arrogance to BMW Oracle. “The announcement (of Americans) is not a surprise, since they have never shown any interest in joining the competition, says Alinghi in a note public. On the contrary, at every moment, they have chosen to emphasize its legal strategy selfish . His last letter shows a tremendous arrogance and disrespect for the teams that have joined the process of working together with the Societe Nautique de Geneve and Alinghi to organize the 33rd America’s Cup. ” “Despite not having never reached the final round in the competition, BOR (BMW Oracle) shows a total indifference towards the significance and fitness equipment as TeamOrigin, the British team that represents the country that created the competition in 1851, Team New Zealand, twice champion of the Copa America, Desafio Espanol, in whose home country, Spain, held its 32nd edition successful and a winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup and a dozen other teams from around the world, “continues the Alinghi reported. Despite the uncertainty, which returns to take over the competition, the Swiss trade union calls for continuing with their plans as if nothing had happened. The 15th, the last true for the registration of new equipment, the meeting will be held in Geneva with the 14 unions that have already been pointed at the 33rd America’s Cup: thirteen of them are already public and a fourteenth remains anonymous, although in Italy is speculation that this is the Luna Rossa. The unions, with Alinghi Beyond this sour crossing communicated between the two major protagonists in the dispute which remains in suspense to the legendary sailing competition, there was no further official reactions. The unions have already given their OK to Alinghi agreed not to make any public announcement. However, all of them share the outrage of the defender. They understand that Oracle has had no interest in reaching an amicable agreement and criticized what they see as an attempt to influence a sporting competition “from outside”, instead of working side by side.