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June 24, 2007 3:46 PM   Subscribe

While the latest America’s Cup tournament in Valencia is heating up - it is interesting to note New Zealand first won the cup back in 1989. Dennis Connor was vilified in New Zealand for unsportsmanship, and probably shouldn’t have agreed to this interview (you will have to sit through an ad to see it sorry).
posted by Samuel Farrow (11 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Nuked at poster's request; the real honey link doesn't work for most of the world. -- cortex



 
Odd, there's no wikipedia entry for Dennis Connor. Why was he vilified for unsportsmanship? Did it have something to do with a winged keel or something? The "this interview" link isn't loading.
posted by delmoi at 4:04 PM on June 24, 2007


Or rather there is but it does not show up when you search wikipedia or google. Weird.
posted by delmoi at 4:07 PM on June 24, 2007


I wonder why that link is not working - tvnz on demand, typical shambles - I looked for a you tuber of it, but it is an obscure interview and nearly 20 years old.

Dennis Connor walks out of the interview in the end and it really launched Paul Holmes tv career here in NZ.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 4:14 PM on June 24, 2007


Sorry about this, TVNZ do not license their content for the rest of the world.

Stupidity.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 4:24 PM on June 24, 2007


Conner vs Connor, delmoi
posted by Rumple at 4:27 PM on June 24, 2007


"Auckland, mon amour," published on Friday in the NZ Herald suggests Dennis the Menace has mellowed:
Conner and [longtime partner Bill] Trenkle, who now works in marine survey, talk about re-entering the game, but agree it would have to be brought back to a reasonable cost before they could consider it. They believe another America's Cup in Auckland would be affordable to a corporate-backed United States team.

"New Zealand was actually a very inexpensive place for a cup campaign. We got a lot of bang for our buck in the last two campaigns. There's a full marine industry in place, ready to handle all the teams, where in Valencia, you had to have 100 per cent of your own infrastructure from scratch," Trenkle says. And if it came back, would DC come too? "We would certainly consider it."
posted by rob511 at 4:42 PM on June 24, 2007


it is interesting to note New Zealand first won the cup back in 1989

According to the article you linked to, they lost. The America's Cup website lists 1995 as the first year New Zealand won. Or am I missing something?
posted by F Mackenzie at 5:21 PM on June 24, 2007


Yes, you are missing the interview, because of TVNZ's stupid licensing. At the time of the interview NZ had been awarded the America's Cup by a court and labelled San Diego Yacht Club's decision to use a catamaran to defend the cup as unsportsmanlike - this was overturned on appeal.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 5:28 PM on June 24, 2007


the commercial was pretty good, though. Hai~yah!
posted by kickback at 5:30 PM on June 24, 2007


What's up with the Swiss being the defending champion against New Zeland for the America's Cup? How was a land-locked country even allowed into this competition in the first place?
posted by eye of newt at 5:33 PM on June 24, 2007


Zeland, Zealand, whatever. An if it's New Zealand, where's Old Zealand?
posted by eye of newt at 5:36 PM on June 24, 2007


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