[meirpolaris]

The letter gives no explanation, but Lee has been adamant that the city not use general fund money to host the event after losing $11.5 million in city funds on the sailing races last year. In addition, the mayor wanted the race organizers to pay rent on the piers and to pay prevailing union wages for construction projects. Those demands seemed to be a no-go with Coutts and Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle. As last year's winner, Ellison gets to make the ultimate decision on the host city.

[jayrod]

4 of 5 Sir Russell Coutts (l to r) and Mayor Ed Lee shake hands after at the conclusion of a celebration of the upcoming America's Cup races and after Mayor Lee's ceremonial signing of an agreement to bring the America's Cup races to San Francisco in 2013 at Pier 27 on Friday, April 27, 2012 in San Francisco, Calif. Lea Suzuki/The Chronicle Show More Show Less more

[bitcool]

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee got an unwelcome letter late Tuesday night: As rumored, the city was ruled out of hosting the 2017 America's Cup sailing races. here

[jaxter]

Russell Coutts, director of the America's Cup Event Authority, e-mailed the mayor confirming news reports that San Francisco hadn't made the short list to host the 35th sailing regatta. San Diego, Chicago and Bermuda are still in the running. here

[gmurray840]

"Given the tight timeline and demands from prospective teams to confirm the final venue, it has been necessary to continue reducing the shortlist of candidate cities," Coutts wrote. "We have therefore taken the difficult decision to no longer consider San Francisco as a possible candidate to host AC35." here

[woola20]

Coutts in his letter said that the race organizers would be open to discussing hosting the 36th event in San Francisco - probably in 2021 or thereabouts. He also said he'd be open to hosting an America's Cup World Series event in San Francisco in 2015 or 2016. Those are a series of races leading up to the big America's Cup event. [links]

[darkskiez]

Mr. Ozanne was in charge of a computer program, the Velocity Performance Predictor, that calculated optimal wing angles and projected speeds. But the sailors ignored his advice. "You did your job, now let us sail the boat," Mr. Ozanne recalls being told. more

[fergalish]

Nobody had expected this. Had team Oracle placed too much faith in the technology? Had its enormous budget lulled the team into overconfidence? Had Mr. Spithill gotten away from the lessons he had learned in Elvina Bay? [links]

[Cchild07]

As mandated by America's Cup rules, all the teams had to create boats of the same basic design—in this case a 72-foot catamaran. All of them had L-shaped boards under their hulls called "foils," which stick down below the waterline like little feet. When the boats hit a certain speed, the hulls rise out of the water and ride on the surfboard-size foils, creating the illusion that the boats are actually flying. here

[endian]

After the sailors struggled for two days, Mr. Ozanne sat them down for a PowerPoint presentation. "You need to forget everything you've done on the conventional sail," he said. When the sailors eventually heeded his suggestions, the boat began performing as advertised. more

[hughbarnard]

NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app – NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs – will provide comprehensive streaming coverage of the 2017 America’s Cup. more

[pc]

Alastair Eykyn (play-by-play) and former America’s Cup Helmsman and Volvo Ocean Race skipper Ken Read (analyst) will provide race commentary throughout the 2017 America’s Cup. Veteran announcer Todd Harris will anchor NBC Sports Group’s pre-race and post-race studio coverage on-site from Bermuda’s Great Sound during the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup Challenger Playoffs and the America’s Cup Match, presented by Louis Vuitton. [links]

[Lord Jebe]

NBCSN and the NBC Sports app will provide comprehensive coverage of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup Qualifiers and Challenger Playoffs through Monday, June 12. The broadcast moves to NBC when the successful Challenger faces off against the Defender in the America’s Cup Match on Saturday, June 17, at 1 p.m. ET. here

[Gordon]

To search for the regional broadcaster in other territories… click here. more

[siuenhan88]

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[aranaahmed1]

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[Aqualung]

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