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Yachting: Oracle gets crucial boost

Weird weather and on-the-edge boats mean even three straight wins and some masterful upwind sailing are no guarantee of success.

America's Cup: Kiwis set to come back aggressively

'We sailed a pretty average race and still got pretty close at the end."

Yachting: Govt funding depends on win

Prime Minister John Key says the Government is only likely to fund another New Zealand bid for the America’s Cup if Team New Zealand win the competition.

America's Cup: Oracle hit back

Oracle Team USA bounced back from a demoralising loss in this morning's opening race to claim their first win of the America's Cup.

3 Questions: Team NZ's defeat

America's Cup Live: Race 4

Live updates of races 3 and 4 of the America's Cup series between Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA.

No holds barred in skippers' Cup wrestle

They might be at the helm of "$10 million carbon fibre missiles", but it's no surprise that neither Dean Barker nor Jimmy Spithill backed down when they came to close quarters.

Oracle's focus: Upwind speed

Oracle Team USA will have had a long night watching where they went wrong yesterday, and their main worry will be their upwind speed.

Paul Lewis: Body language says it all after opening races

If you were a student of body language, you'd have loved the first after-race press conference at the 34th America's Cup.

AC: The burning questions

America's Cup: Two wins for Team NZ

Emirates Team New Zealand have won both of the opening races in the America's Cup and need just seven more victories to claim the Auld Mug.

America's Cup: Oracle with the advantage

America's Cup: All set for first race

Oracle Team USA might have the advantage today. It's all set for the first race against Emirates Team NZ for the 34th America's Cup.

US snub hardens resolve to beat them on the water

The commodore of the Royal NZ Yacht Squadron - the yacht club behind Team New Zealand - was fuming last night at what he said was a calculated snub by the America's Cup Event Authority, the body set up by Oracle Team USA to run the event.

NZ family rally to banned man

Yachting: A day when Rae nearly said one final Sayonara

Larry Ellison's book <i>The Billionaire And The Mechanic</i> opens with a powerful chapter about Ellison, his yacht Sayonara, and the 1998 Sydney to Hobart yacht race when six sailors died and 55 were rescued by helicopter.

Cheating charge devastates boatbuilder

A Kiwi boatbuilder who has been thrown out of the America's Cup regatta for cheating insists that he did not put lead in the boat.

AC: Facebook Cup fell flat

No matter what happens in the first two races in the America's Cup this morning, this isn't just a regatta - it's a watershed.