America's Cup Update - Valencia, Spain - 19 May, 2007
DONE DEAL - BMW/ORACLE
down 5-1 and out...
Lost in the starts, no
recovery except once, Ellison says he will continue to compete next
time. Two things, brilliance by Spitwell for Luna Rosa, an
integrated flawless total team effort and just maybe BMW-Oracle under
estimated their opponents and were overconfident going in, more later.
Emirates should complete their victory in the other semi, Cutler for
Spain was Mr. Cool in todays win!! They are 4-2 now in this best 5
of 9 races, will sail Tuesday. Versus, good job on feed coverage,
also on Versus web site "live".
There will be 20-20 hindsite,
rumors, gossip and finger pointing and personality departures, ignore
all., res ipso facto. May I inject a Plato-Aristotle Humanist
counter thought? The boats were almost equal, the difference was
human performance and error. The start is super critical !
Paul T. Rivard,
USA Yachting Journalist
19 May, 2007