Paperwork hiccup overcome for Australian America's Cup Challenge

3:57 AM Fri 17 Jun 2011 GMT

'16/02/2011 - Auckland (NZL) - 34th America&rsquo;s Cup - AC45 sea trials - Team Australia first testing' Ivor Wilkins/www.americascup.com Click Here to view large photo

Good news at last for Australia's America's Cup 34 Challenging team after a dramatic turn of events in the last few days when the list of challengers announced at a press conference in the host city of San Francisco included two teams from France plus representatives from China, Italy, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden and the United States but no Australian Team. Australian Syndicate head Peter Baker in San Francisco for the talks with the America's Cup Event Management group had initially blamed his funding dilemma on Yachting Australia, the peak Australia Sailing authority, but Baker upon his return to ...

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