America's Cup: Inside Wednesday's Media Conference

1:01 AM Fri 17 Jun 2011 GMT

'34th America's Cup - Competitors annoucement pres conference at San Francisco Ferry building' Gilles Martin-Raget/www.americascup.com Click Here to view large photo

San Francisco based sailing journalist, Michelle Slade, was at the Media Conference held in the San Francisco Ferry Building on Wednesday. It was too difficult for ACEA to put on a phone line for the international media to listen in to proceedings. Here's Michelle's take on the day: Let's get it on Or perhaps better stated, let's get on it, as there were no real surprises at Wednesday's 'unveiling' of the official entries for the 34th America's Cup - the eight contenders including defender ORACLE Racing are: Emirates Team New Zealand, Artemis Racing (SWE), China Team, Team Korea, Aleph-Equipe de ...

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