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This article doesn't mention Oracle's cheating and penalties. Welcome to America, competitors!

• mikeyouse 13y ago
  The cheating was last year, during an exhibition, on a different class of sail boat. The Oracle team added a few 5 pound weights to the front of a 1.5 ton boat to shift the weight slightly. Not exactly the most important thing to note. As an aside, this is how high performance events operate. Look at NASCAR, F1, Indy, etc., you push edge of design to just beyond the legal limits and hope you don't get caught. The rest of the world doesn't need any introduction to these methods. Ask any of the Brazilian, Finnish, or German drivers racing for any of the Italian, Japanese, or British F1 teams.