<******** letter that Alinghi publishes, they just dig that hole deeper and deeper.

Even if the boats were reversed, and truly BMWO's tri wasn't cooler than the Alinghi piece-of-****-held-together-by-strings-catamaran, I would still wish them humiliating failure in every aspect of their lives.


That's a lot of hatred you have brewing there.

Please don't lump me into your hate for Alinghi. Larry has only himself to blame for promoting a non-compliant challenger in Alinghi so many years ago. Alinghi can only farm out the host venue, there is no other option. Alinghi have done the only things they can do, find a venue, write some rules.

The defender has no DoG compliant home venue - FACT
The challenger built a boat before there were any rules and haven't supplied the design to the defender so it can write rules to suit - FACT

Larry is trying to gain as much advantage as possible, Ernesto is trying to gain as much advantage as possible. This is what equally arrogant billionaires do. Unfortunately because SNG was a non-compliant challenger from the very beginning, which was allowed by mutual consent, it has created this very bizarre situation that Alinghi find themselves in.

And if you think that Larry doesn't have his own "evil" plans for the AC, you haven't been keeping up. He has clearly stated a very similar setup to Ernesto should he win.
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