{"id":83549,"date":"2013-09-10T14:31:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83549"},"modified":"2013-09-10T14:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T21:31:23","slug":"sailing-americas-cup-2013-head-games-and-racecourse-wars-resume-intensity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=83549","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; America&#8217;s Cup 2013 &#8211; Head games and racecourse wars resume intensity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite commanding home-court advantage in the ongoing 34th America\u2019s Cup, the past two weeks haven\u2019t been great for the Defender, Oracle Racing USA. The International Jury found the U.S.-flagged team guilty of having illegally doctored several of their AC45s and slapped the team with a (relatively) nominal fee ($250K), a two-win penalty and-likely the stiffest punishment-the expulsion\/suspension of several team members, including their ace wingsail trimmer Dirk de Ridder.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill at a press conference and you\u2019d never know that there was a performance issue. Yet study Spithill\u2019s on-the-water countenance and\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=2&amp;Nid=114291&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite commanding home-court advantage in the ongoing 34th America\u2019s Cup, the past two weeks haven\u2019t been great for the Defender, Oracle Racing USA. The International Jury found the U.S.-flagged team guilty of having illegally doctored several of their AC45s and slapped the team with a (relatively) nominal fee ($250K), a two-win penalty and-likely the stiffest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83550,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83549\/revisions\/83550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}