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The America's Cup has a tradition producing dramatic moments as | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
sailors compete to be crowned the best. 162 years ago the schooner | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
America won the first race around the Isle of Wight. The Cup was Chris | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
enned there and then. Three years ago Oracle won the Cup. | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
The campaign was bank rolled by billionaire Mr Ellison. As the | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
defender they get to make the rules, choose the venue and choose design | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
the boats for the next event. It is a real test for the crew on board. | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
The boats for this Cup are 72-metres long. The space age cat marans are | :01:43. | :01:56. | |
known as AC72s. Foils lift them out of the water, abouting sell ng them | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
to 50 miles per hour. It has produced some of the most exciting | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
racing ever seen. Two boats hurtling towards each | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
other, with no brakes. Very close, racing on the very edge and | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
sometimes over. New Zealand are what's known as "the | :02:15. | :02:27. | |
challenger. Oo I "the Kiwis won the right to face the Americans when | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
they saw off competition from Sweden and Italy. So, at the start of this | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
regatta, they were definitely match-fit. | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
The Americans, on the other hand, had no warm-up event, so they made | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
up their own, building two identical boats, racing against each other. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
One skippered by Jimmy Spithill, the other by Sir Ben Ainslie. More on | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
him later. After three years of development, | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
both teams were very evenly matched. It was too close to call. Just days | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
before the start, Team USA found themselves two points behind. An | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
international jury decided the team had broken the rules in an earlier | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
competition. That put them at minus two on the score board. | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
Nevertheless, the most eagerly anticipated America's Cup began. | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
It is Oracle Team USA... They approach the line for the start of | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
race number one of the 34th America's Cup. | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
The first race went New Zealand's way. In fact, they won three out of | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
the first four. By the fifth, America looked | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
second-best. This is really interesting tactics by Oracle. I | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
don't know what they are doing right now, to be honest. | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
The situation looked critical. It had come to a head. With no points | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
on board, they took an unprecedented step and substituted their tactician | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
for Sir Ben Ainslie. Could a British knight rescue an American Cup | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
campaign? Really it is like taking over somebody's science project the | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
day before the exam, and you know, have to do a lot of swopping to get | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
up to speed with the different software we have and the course | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
management. With the most decorated Olympic | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
sailor ever on board, it was set up for a fairytale comeback. No-one | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
told Dean Barker and his crew. USA lost the next two races and trialled | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
6-0 on the score board. You can be a rooster one day and a feather duster | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
the next, mate! By race eight, the Kiwis were sailing on the crest of a | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
wave, but were in for a massive shock. New Zealand almost capsized! | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Oh, my gosh! New Zealand have the right of way | :05:07. | :05:20. | |
there. Oh, my goodness! By race nine, Team | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
USA had cleared their penalty points and could chase into New Zealand's | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
lead. Impressive from start to finish w the most impressive race | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
time of the series. Day number six of the America's Cup belongs to the | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Americans. Too much wind and too much tide had | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
already caused chaos to the race schedule. With a comfortable 7-1 | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
lead, New Zealand seemed to sail through it. In race 11 Dean Barker's | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
crew passed the Americans upwind and moved within one point of winning | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
the regatta. I think the question is; imagine if these guys lost from | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
here - what an upset that would be! Race 13 proved unlucky for New | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Zealand as they looked to wrap up the series - no wind, no speed, it | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
was like racing in slow motion. Agonisingly in sight of the finish | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
line, Cup success was two minutes away. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
The race has been abandoned! The rule is the race must be | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
completed in 40 minutes. The Kiwis have not won a race since. | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
Team USA's fight back from 8-1 down has piled the pressure on New | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
Zealand, who have to bear the weight of an expectant nation. It is | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
outrating the All Blacks, which is something. Yesterday the cracks were | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
really beginning to show. Come on! | :07:01. | :07:19. | |
The Americans levelled the series. Their seventh race win in a row is a | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
new record and this 34th edition of Their seventh race win in a row is a | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
the Cup is only the third time there's been a win-takes-all | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
showdown. One of the mysteries of this | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
America's Cup is how Team USA have turned their boat from slug to | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
slippery. Their incredible comeback has ignited a global audience. Glim | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
ping the future of match racing at has ignited a global audience. Glim | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
its highest level. That is what Larry Ellison wanted. It is a huge | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
race when it comes to the history of sailing and the America's Cup. Such | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
a long build-up and such an amazing series of racing. Both teams must be | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
hugely excited about what is ahead. We'll not leave anything in the | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
tank. I mean the boys, every single day, find another level to go to. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Today, I am going to ask for everything. Of course they will | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
deliver and find something else. Having never been behind New Zealand | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
have been stuck on match point for seven days. It's not just the 8-1 | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
lead they lost, they are Government-backed and there the | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
taxpayer might not fund another campaign if they lose. I have | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
complete belief. Our team, our guys and I know we can win the race | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
today. You know, it is obviously a big ask the way the Oracle guys have | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
been sailing. It will be very difficult. They have improved a huge | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
amount. They are not unbeatable. We know that if we put together a solid | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
performance then we can win the race. Lo hat has been made -- A lot | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
has been made about today. It is a monumental occasion for the | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
America's Cup and it will be remembered for a long, long time. | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
We go about the business of actually remembering it for the ght reasons. | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
There's no second place in this America's Cup. The describe the | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
final showdown let's go to commentary. And to update us on that | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
all-important win is Gary Jobson. So the current is flooding in. It makes | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
the waves small. It will be a premium on boat handling. You have | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
to push hard. This is the race of this century. Last century, 1983 - | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
sailors from Auckland, New Zealand, San Francisco and all the way to New | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
Jersey are on the edge of their seats today! More from Gary today. | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
We have a flood tide coming into the bay. It is not as strong as we have | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
seen in the past. It will smooth the course out a bit. It will. New | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Zealand think the smooth water is to their benefit. They think that is | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
when they go well against Oracle. They don't like the chop. This makes | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
a difference in the start-box. The weather towards the end of the | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
Golden Gate Bridge becomes more favoured when there is a current | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
like this. It is because it is a better angle to mark number one. It | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
is a subtle little difference. But you can make a case that the leader | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
at mark one goes on to win this case. The boats are that equal in | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
speed. Obviously up and down and a case. The boats are that equal in | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
half times, to huge crowds along the city today. And then the region to | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
the famous - somebody has to finally win the America's Cup here, Todd! | :10:45. | :10:56. | |
So there you see the current. They have been talking about their | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
tactics. I think it will be high. You're not | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
going to go to the shoreline and go all the way... I am saying like we | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
don't want to let them cross over and let them get on this side of us, | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
do we? No. If they go to the left, then surely we build light pressure | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
and attack... I am saying we are not rolling straight away. No. | :11:24. | :11:35. | |
So, at 2. 10 - there was the right of way to the start box and the | :11:35. | :11:44. | |
Americans will follow. This tact has been favourable. Both skipper, | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
skippers on both teams think to be able to enther the box ten -- enter | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
the box ten seconds early is an advantage. Team New Zealand has | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
locked out at the beginning of today's race. | :11:58. | :12:16. | |
We are over! More over... Here is where the at | :12:16. | :12:24. | |
the tigs will feed -- the tactician will feed information to the | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
helmsman. He is totally in control here, using instincts, setting up, | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
not only to get to the line in time, but to get themselves between the | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
other boat and the first mark. One minute to go to the start. Team | :12:35. | :12:57. | |
New Zealand has set themselves up down lu in the box. -- low in the | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
box. It is called the gapping off - they | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
box. might try and use that gap if they | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
can get to the line at the same time to have a better angle to mark one | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
and roll over-the-top. 35 seconds, Jimmy Spithill shows | :13:09. | :13:23. | |
like he'll go for the hook and then pulls it off. Trying to keep a gap | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
here at this stage. He is hooked to... He has to get better time and | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
distance and roll over-the-top. That is their only chance at this stage. | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
Team New Zealand is down low. This is a dangerous spot for Emirates | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
Team New Zealand right now. The wind is good. We are all clear. | :13:43. | :14:03. | |
Race 19. Such a critical moment in this race. | :14:03. | :14:14. | |
A beautiful job by New Zealand. Can they hold the overlap? Huge skids, | :14:14. | :14:26. | |
piled in by Oracle. Emirates Team New Zealand gets the hole shot. | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Oracle takes a big dip. How much will that hurt them? Both boats got | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
really loose there, right at that mark. This is incredible already. | :14:36. | :15:01. | |
Oracle, upon their foil. You heard Ben Ainslie, the tactician say, nice | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
recovery. The Kiwi is just off to the right. | :15:09. | :15:18. | |
Again, another crucial moment. Team New Zealand did not gybe right away | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
with Oracle, therefore it is a drag race. Oracle is not in a bad | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
position. The faster boat could roll the other boat right now. Oracle is | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
inching away at that lead. Let's check in on the water with Gary | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
Jobson. Oracle there really had a bad wave and went up and down and | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
lost it. Buoy, are they selling fast. They have gone right by us, so | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
from our position Oracle has a bit more speed but the big question for | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
Jimmy Spithill, can he block the wind of New Zealand, he is going to | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
go forward about two and a half lengths. They trail by 40 metres to | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
the Kiwis. This is the winner take all of the 34th America's Cup. | :16:07. | :16:18. | |
Flat out Dragon boat racing, two very even boats right now. The | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
boundary will be coming into play shortly. I don't think Oracle is | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
going to have the time to roll over the top. Actually Team New Zealand | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
has come out a bit ahead here recently. Almost a final 20th gybe | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
is both boats decide to make the term with the boundary on the left | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
-- simultaneous gybe. 41 knots of boat speed going into that shot. | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
When you are behind, you put a lot of pressure to make the leading boat | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
nervous. These are sights and sounds that nobody in sailing ever dreamt | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
we would see. This is just a new sport that we are witnessing here, | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
in a 34th America's Cup. They are travelling about 40 knots, which is | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
46 miles an hour, downwind here on leg number two of five. This is | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
going to be a very fast race, the wind is blowing around, 18 to 19 | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
knots. Emirates on the left, Oracle Team | :17:26. | :17:49. | |
USA on the right as they approach Mark Liberty. What are the options | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
for the Kiwis? For the Kiwis you are trying to stay in thing. You learn | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
the hard way at this stage yesterday they were ahead, in the second race, | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
and they allowed Oracle to split and get to the other Mark of the two on | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
the gate. Don't let the split happen. Go with them, match here at | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
this stage. Tom Slingsby calling up the times. | :18:10. | :18:25. | |
They go almost to the lay line and it remains about 65 metre lead for | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
the Kiwis on the left of your screen. The Kiwis have done a great | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
job of staying in sequence with these guys the whole way down and | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
job of staying in sequence with holding a really, really small lead | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
right to the gate. I think Oracle is going to go for a split here. At | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
gate number two, the Americans will split the course yet again. | :18:54. | :19:06. | |
Man, is this setting up exactly like the second race yesterday. Team New | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
Zealand will come out of the right-hand side and they are going | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
to start using that code to their advantage. Let's see what Oracle | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
does at this stage. At this point on the racecourse the Americans have | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
taken the lead by 20 metres. But they are down one tack, so still a | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
lot to play for. As the American league grows up to | :19:28. | :19:46. | |
69 metres, Gary Jobson, who has the right spot and where is the sweet | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
spot on this course as they had up wind? Position wise, Emirates Team | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
New Zealand have to start with the advantage but they are sailing slow | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
slow right now, they have to pick it up a notch if they want to hold on. | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
Here comes the moment of truth. This is the moment of truth. Port start | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
board. Oracle will be likely dipping at this stage then they will | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
board. Oracle will be likely dipping the port starboard advantage. This | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
is the race we only dreamt of. And on the cross the Kiwis take the lead | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
back. With the starboard tack right away, the Kiwis are allowed to head | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
-- and are allowed to cross ahead of Oracle at that stage. | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
Oracle is heading for less current, New Zealand is heading for more. | :20:36. | :20:51. | |
Is the Kiwis tack on the far left side of the course, the Americans | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
stay on course with good speed and this will close the gap | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
substantially. This is where Oracle turned on the | :20:57. | :21:08. | |
afterburners yesterday. It was speed that we have never seen out of AC72 | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
up wind. Let's see if they have it in them again today. Another moment | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
of truth. Starboard tack advantage now to Oracle, as they -- was the | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
cross comes yet again. They are almost dead even on the water Oswego | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
on-board Oracle Team USA. -- Oswego on-board. | :21:31. | :21:41. | |
A big cross, the Americans having the right of way and they will make | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
the cross. I don't think Team New Zealand had to look at that stage, | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
that means that is about three boat length game over the last minute and | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
a half, a big number, a big jump for Oracle. We will learn a lot about | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
a half, a big number, a big jump for boats here, if New Zealand go to the | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
right, the speeds are even, if the USA continues the game, they are a | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
lot faster boat. Leg three of five approaching the halfway point of | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
this race and this is one for all of the models, the 34th America's Cup | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
this race and this is one for all of will go to the winner of this race. | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
That is the voice of Tom Slingsby, the strategist on Oracle. He says | :22:25. | :22:35. | |
they are crossing if he tacks. Yet others are huge moment. -- yet | :22:35. | :22:46. | |
another huge moment. Wow! Not just across, another couple of boat | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
lengths, a couple of boat lengths for Oracle. This is looking awfully | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
familiar. The question is, what are the Americans doing right? What are | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
the Kiwis doing wrong? Boat speed, boat speed, boat speed, a | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
tactician's best friend. Dig into this one a little. Don't be afraid | :23:05. | :23:18. | |
to be a little faster I think, guys. Set-up here. Here, as we take a look | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
overhead at Emirates Team New Set-up here. Here, as we take a look | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
Zealand, what is their strategy now with less than a race to go question | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
might Well if you are slower than Oracle right now, if you are New | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
Zealand, you have to keep the other boat tacking and manoeuvre and try | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
to make them make a mistake. If your speed is even, go straight, if you | :23:37. | :23:46. | |
are slower, make them manoeuvre. You can see the flood tide coming in | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
from the Pacific into the San Francisco Bay. Emirates holding up | :23:49. | :24:01. | |
25 knots. This is it, this is it. Is commentated by Mr Ben Ainslie. | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
They continue. These guys are smoking right now. They are foiling | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
almost all the time. Something that we rarely saw at the beginning of | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
this event. Every single race they have been out of the water is | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
foiling more and more up wind, they are using it to their advantage. | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
The lead is now 162 metres. Keep working, keep working. Holloway. -- | :24:34. | :24:57. | |
Hall away. Go! Come on! The wind continues but not overly mid-. There | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
is no wind limit after the top mark. Pics moments ago at 20.7 knots. Our | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
wind limit is 20.74. As Gary Jobson pointed out, if they get through | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
Mach number three the wind is waved off and that has to be advantaged | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
Team USA. These guys are down the road, is it getting windier? It is | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
getting a bit windy, particularly at the top end of the course. It is | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
hard to see that because of the top -- the strong flood tide, which | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
keeps the waves down. These guys have done everything right in this | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
race except they just don't have the pace. | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
Oh, nice move by Oracle to push them back. Well done. Ben Ainslie, the | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
tactician on-board Oracle Team USA, the man on the far right of your | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
screen, is a four time Olympic gold medallist. | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
And with every metre sails, you've got to imagine the pressure that is | :26:05. | :26:24. | |
being applied on-board Emirates Team New Zealand. One week ago they had a | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
lead of 8-1. It is now 8-8 and the winner of this race will take the | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
Cup. What a show for the people on the shoreline in San Francisco Bay. | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
And for sailors and non-sailors alike around the world, this is a | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
comeback like international sport may have never seen before. Oracle | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
has pace. Folks, this is a complete role | :26:47. | :26:59. | |
reversal of what we saw seven or eight days ago. It was the Kiwis | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
putting it to the Americans. They could go wherever and whenever they | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
wanted on the course and now the role is reversed. The lead, 260 | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
metres to the Americans. Look at the boat speeds, almost 30 knots for | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
Oracle and 25 or 26 for Emirates Team New Zealand. Give the design | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
team a lot of credit. The shore team. An incredible amount of credit | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
for sticking with these guys and giving them a faster boat at this | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
stage. Let's not forget Emirates Team New | :27:28. | :27:42. | |
Zealand, three or four times over the last couple of days, have been | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
able to close the race down one leg for, to less than 100 metres -- lead | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
four. If the Americans think this is wrapped up, give them a pep talk | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
because it will be thrown at them when they turn to home. There is | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
zero quitting in these guys but holy Smoke, look at that, talk about | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
demoralising. Just gone, right now. If you are Oracle, just gone. Gary, | :28:05. | :28:12. | |
every time they lead the docks, they seem faster. They made some | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
improvements since yesterday. It is impressive sight, seeing them foil | :28:18. | :28:19. | |
up wind as they are right now. Get on the foil and then we will do | :28:19. | :28:40. | |
it. Really big wind out of the gate, Oracle has to be very careful | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
making that rounding. It can't make a mistake at that point. As we saw | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
during the Louis Vuitton Cup, almost taking the thing over and losing two | :28:48. | :28:54. | |
crewmember over the side during the race. No harm, no foul, but with | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
that big a wind under 13 story wing, you have to be pretty careful. | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
Team New Zealand is going 27 or 28 knots of wind, that is almost 30% | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
more faster than they went in the Louis Vuitton Cup. Unbelievable | :29:08. | :29:18. | |
speed gains. Maybe there were a little Conservative on the start, | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
knowing they were fast rolling to New Zealand. | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
I am not sure Jimmy Spithill has ever been conservative about | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
anything, Gary. There is the track, showing Howard | :29:30. | :29:41. | |
far -- showing you how far out the Americans are in front. That is the | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
41 Kiwi acting as tactician. Well, it is miracle time for | :29:45. | :30:00. | |
Emirates. They have to darn near flip this boat over at this stage, | :30:00. | :30:06. | |
it is such a big lead. And at gate number three, we will | :30:06. | :30:12. | |
bring them home uninterrupted. Oracle team USA with a huge lead. | :30:13. | :30:19. | |
The Americans will retain the cup and for Team New Zealand they have | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
to find wind and speed if they want to take the Cup to New Zealand. | :30:22. | :30:38. | |
The boat just about takes off at the top gate. | :30:38. | :30:52. | |
They went for it! The Kiwis split the course. They are | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
looking for in Iing to get them -- for anything to get them back in | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
touch. They are dealt a 26-seconds behind the defenders. They are | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
almost going to have to gib immediately here. | :31:07. | :31:18. | |
-- gybe immediately here. The lead is almost 500 metres. The | :31:18. | :31:29. | |
Kiwis way over on the boundary. At this stage of the game, nothing | :31:29. | :31:31. | |
Kiwis way over on the boundary. to lose! | :31:31. | :31:39. | |
All kinds of records will be talked about when this is p done -- when | :31:39. | :31:48. | |
this is done, whichever way it goes. The fastest Cup. Oracle Team USA is | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
this is done, whichever way it goes. ahead of the record by about 30 | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
seconds. Let's not forget it was four days ago that Emirates Team New | :31:56. | :32:02. | |
Zealand had the lead. They made the turn on the last leg, literally four | :32:02. | :32:06. | |
minutes away from winning the Cup and the whistle was blown. A time | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
limit of 40 minutes had expired and the race was wiped clean. | :32:11. | :32:27. | |
One thing in common with this Cup, there was a Kirby on board. His | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
father on board in 1992. You talk about the speed of the | :32:31. | :32:47. | |
Kiwis, they certainly had it when they won the vit vit vit -- Luois | :32:47. | :32:58. | |
Vitton Cup. Where has the speed gone? They put the jets on. A lot of | :32:58. | :33:04. | |
time and effort has gone into designing the technology. Vertical | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
learning curves have been talked about all the time. They get better | :33:08. | :33:13. | |
every day. Oracle has happened to get better, faster. | :33:13. | :33:21. | |
Do you think we'll ever see these boats again? These AC72s are the | :33:21. | :33:28. | |
vision of Larry Ellison and Russell, after they put these together after | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
winning the last America's Cup. They had the right to decide where it | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
would be contested and these AC72s were they drier. Their dream. | :33:36. | :33:45. | |
Here we are, breaking down barriers into the history of the America's | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
Cup. Never have we seen anything like that - the epic combat | :33:49. | :33:55. | |
continues! Was that a smile? Very close. Jimmy | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
Spithill, the skipper and helmsman on Oracle USA, Australian by birth, | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
married to an American woman. As he is bringing this home, he can see | :34:07. | :34:09. | |
gate four in the distance. It's not bad to have five Olympic | :34:09. | :34:24. | |
gold medals behind you and give you information. Not bad at all! | :34:24. | :34:38. | |
There's a smile. CREW: SLOWLY GET SOFTER FROM HERE? | :34:38. | :34:52. | |
Don't smile yet, Jimmy! For more than ten days Jimmy | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
Spithill sat down at press conference after press conference | :34:56. | :35:03. | |
and said, "We can still with this." At 8-1, he said, "I believe we can | :35:03. | :35:08. | |
win this again." We had the conversation that said, what is | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
wrong with him - you have to know when you are beat! He never knew it! | :35:12. | :35:18. | |
They had incredible winning and losing streaks, Dean Barker and | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
Jimmy Spithill. Not the best gybe on Oracle there by the way. They | :35:22. | :35:26. | |
handled their press conferences, the pressure, with incredible poise and | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
we have to take our hats off to both of them. If you go out here, New | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
Zealand did a really good race. Got to lead at the second gate. What | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
else could they have done? They are a little slower. At tend of the day, | :35:39. | :35:43. | |
it is always the faster boat that will win and tacticians aside, over | :35:43. | :35:50. | |
the past races it has been Oracle Team USA. If this stands the way it | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
is, this will definitely hurt for Emirates Team New Zealand and a | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
nation. I will say this, Dean Barker, Davies and the crew are some | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
of the classiest you have ever come across. Oracle, Team USA makes the | :36:05. | :36:13. | |
turn for home. I never thought I would say this, | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
but Oracle is going to win the America's Cup. This is incredible! | :36:16. | :36:24. | |
What was dubbed as a rates for redemption for Dean Barker and New | :36:24. | :36:28. | |
Zealand looked like it was on course as they led a week ago. They were | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
sitting on a match-point. One more victory and the Cup was being | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
shipped off to Auckland, New Zealand. Here we are a week later | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
and it is Oracle Team USA that is just moments away from keeping the | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
Cup. The Stars and Stripes say it all! | :36:45. | :37:10. | |
The comeback is complete! America's Cup will stay in America. | :37:10. | :37:39. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE And as the celebration commences on | :37:39. | :37:54. | |
the shores here, in San Francisco, Emirates Team New Zealand comes | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
across, one short for more than a week, their final delta in excess of | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
438 seconds -- 43 seconds. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :38:02. | :38:27. | |
A fly-by like no other! A defence for the record books. America's Cup | :38:27. | :38:36. | |
will stay with Oracle Team USA. Oh, just had anything - a little bit | :38:36. | :38:50. | |
of spray, as you can see. We almost lost you! I am still here. Jimmy | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
Spithill, two-times America's Cup skipper. How does this feel? It | :38:56. | :39:02. | |
really is about the team. On your own, you are nothing. When you have | :39:02. | :39:05. | |
a team like this around you, that I can make you look great and they did | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
all of that today and the whole series - just so proud of the boys. | :39:09. | :39:16. | |
Just a fantastic team effort! Heartbreak for Dean Barker, who with | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
his team couldn't compete with the blistering speeds and skill of the | :39:20. | :39:21. | |
USA. blistering speeds and skill of the | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
Very frustrating. You think back two weeks, the | :39:25. | :39:30. | |
opposite was true. The gains they have made is phenomenal. A great | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
credit to those guys, they have really done an amazing job to sort | :39:34. | :39:40. | |
their boat out and probably a good thing for us they didn't do it | :39:40. | :39:44. | |
earlier. I am incredibly proud of our team and what they have | :39:44. | :39:46. | |
achieved. I am gutted that we didn't get the | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
last one that we needed to take this Cup back to New Zealand. It's very | :39:52. | :39:57. | |
hard to swallow! A triumphant win for Jimmy Spithill, | :39:57. | :40:05. | |
completes one of -- completing one of the most exhilarating comebacks | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
in the sport. I will tell you one thing, it is an | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
incredible team standing behind me. We faced a lot of adversity, a lot | :40:14. | :40:19. | |
of challenges. We dug a big hole. We came together as a team. There is | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
of challenges. We dug a big hole. We one ingredient we could not have | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
done it without - your support. Thank you very much. This is a team | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
that never, ever gives up. We fought all the way to the end. Every single | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
day we were winning races, all you guys were coming supporting us. All | :40:32. | :40:38. | |
the good messages got through. It really affected the guys. We are in | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
debt to you guys. The defender of really affected the guys. We are in | :40:41. | :40:47. | |
the America's cup... Oracle Team USA! | :40:47. | :40:49. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE It was an amazing feeling to. Be a | :40:49. | :41:12. | |
part of that really creating history w this American team - it is a real | :41:12. | :41:17. | |
privilege. The Olympics is mainly about individuals or small teams and | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
the America's Cup is about big teams. To be sure, these are the two | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
the America's Cup is about big best in the world - Emirates and | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
Oracle Team USA. Hats off to the Kiwis. They have been a standout | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
team all the way through. At one point it looked like they were | :41:32. | :41:36. | |
walking away with the America's Cup. Somehow we managed to pull the hat | :41:36. | :41:40. | |
out of the bag and get ourselves back in the competition. It is one | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
of the biggest comebacks I have ever seen in any sport. It has been an | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
hon tore be a -- honour to be a part of the team. This could have done | :41:49. | :41:55. | |
more for sailing than anything other. The messagesvy had from home | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
is -- the messages I have had from home is people who never really | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
watch sailing before, they suddenly get it. They think the raw speed - | :42:05. | :42:10. | |
they really are taken away by it. And the closeness of this | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
competition, this comeback from Oracle Team USA, from 8-1 down, it | :42:15. | :42:23. | |
has captured the public's imagination. There is no secret I | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
would love to see a British team's success. It is where it started. We | :42:28. | :42:35. | |
have a proud maritime history. We have incredibly talented sailor, | :42:35. | :42:41. | |
designers. If the Aussies and the Kiwis can be top of this game, then | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
surely the Brits can too. No-one could see this comeback. Full credit | :42:46. | :42:51. | |
to Jimmy Spithill and his crew. The team boss has transformed this | :42:51. | :42:53. | |
event. There was a revolutionary team boss has transformed this | :42:53. | :42:59. | |
gain in boat speed, reducing an on-water speckal that produced | :42:59. | :43:06. | |
heart-spotting excitement. -- heart-stopping excitement. They | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
are expensive - a winning campaign can cost at least $100 million. That | :43:10. | :43:18. | |
limits the challengers. Will we see the AC72s again? Back to the | :43:18. | :43:25. | |
Americans and Spithill, but a first for Britain's Ben Ainslie who has | :43:25. | :43:32. | |
added the America's Cup glory to his Olympic titles. | :43:32. | :43:37. |