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Match race med 2 BMW Oracle trimaraner i olympiaden næste gang.

Cats Are Back In The Olympics!
Photo by Carlo Borlenghi, Luca Butto Gudo Trombetta/ALINGHI. Click on image for photo gallery.

In the movie "Contact", industrialist S.R. Hadden says "First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?"... and that edict was apparently taken to heart by Larry Ellison, as it was revealed today that BMW / Oracle built not one, but TWO monster trimarans in Anacortes Washington.

A spokesman for the AC syndicate said today "We had our concerns about the structural integrity of both the boat and the wingsail... we were in completely untested territory here, only NASA has done anything remotely like the ceramic technologies and load bearing physics that we worked with. There was some real concern that if the boat suffered some sort of breakage, the entire America's Cup endeavour would be over. So why just build one boat for 50 million and risk it all, when you can have two for 100?. We were prepared to air freight in our secret second boat at a moment's notice... in fact we had it stashed in Europe within a few hours' flight from Valencia..."

But what to do with these two white elephants? Why, donate them to the International Olympic Committee and get multihulls, and match racing, back into the Olympics!

"Our tax lawyers tell us we can get a HUGE deduction for this donation.. enough so that we could provide support services, shipping, training, dockage, the works. We start work on the hangers at Weymouth this week." said the BMW / Oracle spokesperson.

IOC President Jacques Rogge: "This was just too good to turn down. The boats and all the support are free to the IOC, we just have to make three more medals. And I've been promised an '18th man' slot for at least one day of competition. I'm in, and so is the IOC, we look forward to some amazing sailing on the English Channel in 2012."

Forfatter Kenny (1. april 2010, 08:39)




Sidst opdateret 27. august 2010