Louis Vuitton Cup - Scoop [Auckland] Live Racing Coverage

First match schedule time - 10:30am New Zealand time.

18 October 1999
Race 1- (Morning)
1st Match Young America vs America True
2nd Match Nippon Challenge vs Abracadabra 2000
3rd Match FAST2000 vs Prada Challenge
4th Match Le Defi Francais vs Stars & Stripes
5th Match AmericaOne vs Spanish Challenge
BYE Young Australia 2000

Race 2 - Afternoon
1st Match Prada Challenge vs The Nippon Challenge
2nd Match Spanish Challenge vs Young America
3rd Match America True vs AmericaOne
4th Match Young Australia 2000 vs Le Defi Francais
5th Match Abracadabra 2000 vs FAST2000
BYE Stars & Stripes

19 October 1999
Race 3 - Morning
1st Match Le Defi Francais vs The Spanish Challenge
2nd Match AmericaOne vs FAST2000
3rd Match Abracadabra 2000 vs Stars & Stripes
4th Match Prada Challenge vs Young Australia 2000
5th Match Young America vs Nippon Challenge
BYE America True

Race 4 - Afternoon
1st Match Young Australia 2000 vsAbracadabra 2000
2nd Match FAST2000 vs Young America
3rd Match Nippon Challenge vs AmericaOne
4th Match Stars & Stripes vs Prada Challenge
5th Match America True vs Le Defi Francais
BYE Spanish Challenge

20 October 1999
Race 5 - Morning
1st Match Spanish Challenge vs Prada Challenge
2nd Match Nippon Challenge vs Stars & Stripes
3rd Match Young America vs Le Defi Francais
4th Match Abracadabra 2000 vs America True
5th Match FAST2000 vs Young Australia 2000
BYE AmericaOne

Race 6 - Afternoon
1st Match Le Defi Francais vs AmericaOne
2nd Match Young Australia 2000 vs Nippon Challenge
3rd Match Abracadabra 2000 vs Spanish Challenge
4th Match America True vs Prada Challenge
5th Match Stars & Stripes vs FAST2000
BYE Young America

21 October 1999
Race 7- Morning
1st Match Spanish Challenge vs Young Australia 2000
2nd Match America True vs Stars & Stripes
3rd Match Nippon Challenge vs Le Defi Francais
4th Match Young America vs Abracadabra 2000
5th Match Prada Challenge vs AmericaOne
BYE FAST2000

Race 8 - Afternoon
1st Match Le Defi Francais vs FAST2000
2nd Match Stars & Stripes vs The Spanish Challenge
3rd Match Young Australia 2000 vs America True
4th Match AmericaOne vs Abracadabra 2000
5th Match Prada Challenge vs Young America
BYE Nippon Challenge

22 October 1999
Race 9- Afternnoon
1st Match AmericaOne vs Stars & Stripes
2nd Match America True vs FAST2000
3rd Match Young America vs Young Australia 2000
4th Match Spanish Challenge vs Nippon Challenge
5th Match Abracadabra 2000 vs Le Defi Francais
BYE Prada Challenge

23 October 1999
Race 10-Morning
1st Match Young Australia 2000 vs AmericaOne
2nd Match Le Defi Francais vs Prada Challenge
3rd Match Nippon Challenge vs America True
4th Match FAST2000 vs Spanish Challenge
5th Match Stars & Stripes vs Young America
BYE Abracadabra 2000

Race 11- Afternoon
1st Match FAST2000 vs Nippon Challenge
2nd Match Prada Challenge vs Abracadabra 2000
3rd Match Spanish Challenge vs America True
4th Match AmericaOne vs Young America
5th Match Stars & Stripes vs Young Australia 2000
BYE Le Defi Francais

© Scoop Media

Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>