FROM SCUTTLEBUTT:<\/p>\n
SAN DIEGO, CHICAGO, BERMUDA ARE STILL IN THE RUNNING.<\/p>\n
America\u2019s Cup: Why not Newport?<\/b><\/p>\n
Published on<\/b> June 9, 2014<\/p>\n
Russell Coutts, the CEO of America\u2019s Cup champion Oracle Team USA, announced in January<\/span><\/a> that officials were talking with other venues about hosting the 35th America\u2019s Cup in 2017 because San Francisco officials hadn\u2019t offered sufficient terms to automatically return.<\/p>\n Among the immediate candidates was Newport, RI, which had been closely considered for the 2013 event, and had been home to the event from 1930 to 1983. The venue had several attractive attributes: passionate fans, summer seabreeze, and dedicated facilities.<\/p>\n However, when Coutts announced last week to BBC News<\/span><\/a> that the list had been narrowed to four cities, and Newport wasn\u2019t one of them, we got curious what happened. Brad Read, Executive Director of Sail Newport, which coordinated the bid on behalf of the state and Sail Newport, Rhode Island\u2019s Public Sailing Center, sheds light on situation.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile disappointed, we remain optimistic to once again be a host site for an America\u2019s Cup World Series event in 2016. We appreciate Russell Coutts and the rest of the America\u2019s Cup team taking the time to evaluate our bid. However, the America\u2019s Cup is a complex event, both on and off the water. Operating under a very tight time frame imposed by the AC Event Authority, we were not comfortable engaging commercial partners with the information that was available in the timeframe required.\u201d<\/p>\n While the 35th America\u2019s Cup match will be held elsewhere, Read is hopeful that Newport will remain in the running to host a preliminary America\u2019s Cup World Series event as the teams prepare for the 35th America\u2019s Cup. The extremely successful America\u2019s Cup World Series event in June 2012 proved that Rhode Island, Newport, and Narragansett Bay can host a yachting event of the highest magnitude.<\/p>\n \u201cWith the support of the State of Rhode Island, Fort Adams State Park has been developed into a premiere shore side venue for grand-prix maritime competition,\u201d said Read, noting that Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay are famous around the world for their spectacular sailing conditions.<\/p>\n \u201cNext spring we will host the only North American stopover of the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race. This event will bring hundreds of sailors, team support staff, race officials and journalists to Newport, along with tens of thousands of sailing and non-sailing fans daily to our wonderful Fort Adams State Park. With the continued cooperation of the Governor\u2019s office and the State Legislature \u2013 without which none of this would be possible \u2013 we believe we can continue to attract top sailing events, and their considerable economic impact, to the Ocean State.<\/p>\n \u201cThe America\u2019s Cup is a part of Newport\u2019s history and vice versa. We will remain in contact with ACEA in hopes that Newport will be considered for an America\u2019s Cup World Series event and to keep open the possibility of hosting an America\u2019s Cup match in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FROM SCUTTLEBUTT: SAN DIEGO, CHICAGO, BERMUDA ARE STILL IN THE RUNNING. America\u2019s Cup: Why not Newport? Published on June 9, 2014 Russell Coutts, the CEO of America\u2019s Cup champion Oracle Team USA, announced in January that officials were talking with other venues about hosting the 35th America\u2019s Cup in 2017 because San Francisco officials hadn\u2019t … Continue reading AMERICA’S CUP: WHY NOT NEWPORT?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,1954,87],"tags":[2657,2454],"class_list":["post-8362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup","category-americas-cup-35","category-newport-ri","tag-americas-cup-35","tag-newport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8363,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions\/8363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}