(From Spiegel online 09.24.2008)
compromise on course: The American sailing syndicate BMW Oracle Alinghi is his adversary in the dispute, contrary to the next America's Cup. The challenger is willing to accept the terms of the Swiss defender after all - but called conditions.
Hamburg - Two months after the surprising defeat in a New York appeals court has America's Cup challenger BMW Oracle Racing defender Alinghi made a new peace offer. The Americans are offering to give up the appeal process initiated by them in the last resort, should the Swiss have an America's Cup organizing with many challengers with the rules from the year 2007.
In a letter to Pierre-Yves Firmenich, President of Alinghi Association Société Nautique de Genève, said Mark Young, President of the challenging Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC): "When you are ready to explain himself, immediately an America's Cup regatta with many to support challengers in Valencia, which also GGYC be permitted and under rules as the 32nd America's Cup takes place, then we drop our lawsuit and avoid a duel with multihulls. "
Alinghi is since the verdict in favor of the Swiss again in July in a strong position, leads talks with team principals such as Sir Keith Mills (Team Origin), Patrizio Bertelli (Luna Rossa) und anderen. Während BMW Oracle Racings Hoffnungen auf dem laufenden Berufungsverfahren ruhen, dessen Urteil mit ungewissem Ausgang aber noch ein Jahr oder länger auf sich wartenlassen könnte, ist neue Bewegung in den Streit um die Macht im America's Cup gekommen.
Alinghis Besitzer Ernesto Bertarelli ist in dieser Woche geschäftlich in Kalifornien. In diesem Rahmen, so erklärte eine Pressesprecherin Alinghis, sei es "möglich, dass Ernesto Bertarelli und Larry Ellison (BMW-Oracle-Besitzer, d. Red.) bei einem Treffen die Gespräche fortführen, die sie in den vergangenen Wochen telefonisch geführt haben". Weiter heißt es aus Alinghis Lager: "Wir glauben, dass die diplomatische Route die Tür can open to a solution and prefer, therefore, not to the press release responding to Golden Gate Yacht Club, to have met Ernesto and Larry. "
New competition could be the established teams by a newcomer from Germany threatened. The Hamburg millionaire Harm Müller-Spreer want to go with his platoon sailing team for the upcoming America's Cup at the start. Among other things, Müller-Spreer oblige the top sailors Jochen Schuemann, who in his career, won three Olympic gold and as sporting director of Team Alinghi large proportion of the America's Cup success in 2003 and 2007 had.
fpf / luk / dpa
(From Spiegel online 24.09.2008)
sport is fair .. .. 
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