Emirates Team New Zealand having already won the Louis Vuitton Challenger now challenge Team Alinghi of Switzerland for the 32nd Americas Cup in Valencia June 2007

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The 32nd America's Cup, Valencia, Spain June July 2007
	Team	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8	Race 9	TOTAL
	Emirates Team New Zealand		1	1							2
	Alinghi	1			1	1	1	1			5

RACE SHEDULE:
Race Days in White - Rest Days in blue, Days already raced in Grey reserves in darker blue

THE RACING SO FAR:

Race 7: July 3
Alinghi win the America's Cup by 1 second! Bad luck Team New Zealand.

Race Six   29 June 2007
Alinghi win by 30 seconds*
ETNZ lead for much of the race but Alinghi found a wind shift on the last leg which made the difference.

Race Five  29 June 2007
Alinghi win by 19 seconds*
ETNZ narrowly led the start however had a major problem when a spinnaker blew and Alinghi sailed by to finish 19 seconds ahead ahead of a huge floatila of spectator craft.

Race Four   27 June 2007
Alinghi win by 30 seconds*
Alinghi won the start and stayed ahead throughout the race.
* Team new Zealand are protesting America's Cup Class Rule 31.6, which reads, "Mainsails shall be able to be lowered to the deck without the necessity of a crew member going aloft." Alinghi were seen to have a crewman up the mast after the race.

NOTE: ETNZ's protest was won by Alinghi by a majority of judges.

Race Three   26 June 2007
Emirates Team New Zealand win by 25 seconds
In an amazing see-saw race, it was a battle to the end which saw Emirates Team New Zealand recover from a costly error and take the win.

Race Two   24 June 2007
Emirates Team New Zealand win by 28 seconds
Emirates Team New Zealand narrowly won the start again, Alinghi lead for most of the race but made a mistake on the last leg to let ETNZ through to win by a narrower margin than day one.


Race One   23 June 2007
Alinghi win by 35 seconds
Emirates Team New Zealand narrowly won the start but Alinghi fought back to win by a narrow margin.


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