Christian Vande Velde of the Garmin-Slipstream team broke two ribs in a fall on Monday’s Giro d’Italia third stage and is out of the race, organisers said.
The American, who wore the leader’s jersey after the first stage of last year’s race, was taken to hospital after tumbling late on… Details
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For over 20 years Cronulla’s Shark Island has been a proving ground for high performance Bodyboarding in Australia.
In 1997 this proving ground was extended to a selected international contingent, when a hardcore group of Cronulla locals created a competition format they named The Shark Island Challenge. The concept was simple: Invite the world’s best riders to Cronulla to surf Australia’s original wave of consequence to compete in a “winner takes all†shoot out.
Over the past 12 years the Shark Island Challenge has become one of the most prestigious events in the world, synonymous with some of the most breath taking competition images in bodyboarding history. For many years the …Â Details
The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) today filed a memorandum of law in the Supreme Court of the State of New York supporting the court-ordered dates of February 2010 for the next America’s Cup match and opposing a frivolous motion made by the defender Société Nautique de Genève (SNG) to disqualify GGYC.
In early April the New York State Court of Appeals, in a unanimous 6-0 ruling, held that GGYC is the rightful challenger and that the next match would be in ten months, meaning early February 2010.
However, in an April 23 letter to GGYC, SNG unilaterally dictated that the match shall be in May 2010 in defiance of the Court’s April 7, 2009 Order and Judgment. GGYC filed a motion to hold SNG in contempt of court for defiance of the judgment.
SNG retaliated with a cross-motion seeking to disqualify GGYC for …Â Details
Two words should have come flashing into the mind space of America’s Cup fans, after the announcement by Circolo di Vela Gargnano (CVG)of a challenge for the 33rd America’s Cup, in what will be the second Deed of Gift Match.
Those two words should have been ‘Blue Arrow’ the ill-fated extreme multihull designed by Derek Clark, built to take on Sir Michael Fay’s 130ft monohull to determine the challenger for the 27th Match.
Fay initially allowed the organisation of a challenger series for the Match in which he, or rather his club, Mercury Bay Boating Club had its challenge accepted after a prolonged battle through the New York courts.
While Fay was happy for a Challenger Selection series in monohulls, he was not prepared to allow the entry from Royal Burnham YC under the patronage of Peter de Savary to compete against his monohull. And so permission to compete was withdrawn.
Turning to the present circumstance, we now have …Â Details