The registration of teams to participate in the 33rd edition of the America’s Cup sailing, whose headquarters and timing have not been completed, is closed today, Monday, with the possibility of it becoming the largest in the history of the competition . EFE According to the organization of this centuries-Regatta, today, besides the defender Alinghi (Nautical Society of Geneva) and the “challenger of record” Desafio Espanol (Spanish Club Nautico de Vela, Spain), there are fourteen other teams arrived, while four other unions are in the administrative process of registration. Among the teams entered are six that have already participated in the last edition of the America’s Cup, held in summer 2007 in Valencia and in which the Swiss team was proclaimed champions of Jarra and retained the Hundred Guineas. Among them, besides Spanish, are the Team Shosholoza (Royal Cape Yacht Club-South Africa), Emirates Team New Zealand (Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, New Zealand), Victory Challenge (Gamla Stans Yacht Sällskap-Sweden), Team Germany ( Deutscher Challenger Yacht Club) and Mascalzone Latino (Royal Yacht Club Canottieri Savoia-Italy). Alongside them, new TeamOrigin (Royal Thames Yacht Club-UK), Green Comm (Challenge di Circolo Vela Gargano, Italy), Ayre (Royal Yacht Club of Denia, Spain), Argo Challenge (Club Nautico di Gaeta, Italy) , French Spirit (Yacht Club de Saint Tropez, France) and the Carbon Challenge of Belgium, whose club prefers not to reveal. Of the other three teams arrived, has transcended that one of them is the Luna Rossa (Yacht Club Italiano, Italy), while the other two, one is of Russian nationality and the other is also Italian. Regarding the other four teams that are in the process of registration, the Swiss team sources indicated that they are in different stages of processing and that the same could confirm their participation in the 33 America’s Cup four, that any of them or none. In the case of a positive way to solve their registration, the next America’s Cup, whose headquarters would be Valencia, according to the consensus of the participants and is held in 2010 or 2011, because the various Spanish authorities involved in the organization of the test have bet because it is held in this city. The Cup would be the presence of twenty teams, the highest figure in the history of the competition and the possibility of confirmation of the entry of so many teams, one difficulty that arises is that of achieving bases for all. The capacity of the port of Valencia is limited to “thirteen, fourteen or fifteen bases if it is stretched far” but since Alinhgi indicated that they prefer to focus on the problems when they arise and no further developments. One of the options being considered to increase the number of facilities for the different teams, in the event that finally the U.S. syndicate BMW-Oracle, as announced, did not participate in the 33rd America’s Cup, would be to divide the building Now his home base in two different locations. On Monday, at 17:00 pm is the deadline for registration for a competition revived, but with an uncertain future in the hope of resolving the legal dispute that the BMW-Oracle (Golden Gate Yacht Club) continues against Alinghi in the Supreme Court of New York and whose outcome will be known by mid-year 2009.
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