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To: Clappy who wrote (24043)	2/28/2003 11:50:12 PM
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To: Clappy who wrote (24043)	3/1/2003 12:18:34 AM
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Race 5 postponed due to light winds -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press Friday, February 28 AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- Switzerland's pursuit of nautical history will have to wait. Race 5 of the America's Cup was postponed Saturday because of light wind on the uncooperative Hauraki Gulf. It was the seventh postponement in the best-of-nine series, which Alinghi leads 4-0. The forecast called for wind of 7-to-12 knots from the northeast, but it was down to 4 knots during much of a two-hour delay, with an occasional breeze of 7 knots. Principal race officer Harold Bennett called it off about two hours after the scheduled starting time. The race committee will try to get the race under way Sunday. The light conditions came a day after Team New Zealand's 110-foot mast snapped in two amid high wind and rough seas, the second major Kiwi breakdown in four races. Alinghi, the whimsically named sloop that represents an Alpine country with no coastline, needs one more victory to take the cup back to Europe for the first time in 152 years. The silver jug hasn't been in European hands since the yacht America won what was then called the 100 Guinea Cup by beating a fleet of British schooners around the Isle of Wight on Aug. 22, 1851. While tycoons like Sir Thomas Lipton and Tom Sopwith tried in vain for years to win back the cup for Britain, biotech billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli is close to taking the oldest trophy in international sports to a country better known for producing bobsledders and ski jumpers than sailors. The 37-year-old Bertarelli bought up some of the world's best sailors three years ago to start the campaign. He also sails as navigator. Bertarelli was one of only two Swiss nationals on the 16-man crew of Alinghi, an 80-foot sloop painted black with funky red swirls. Coutts needs one more win to sail unbeaten through his third straight America's Cup match and extend his record for consecutive victories with 14. A win would also move him out of a tie with Dennis Conner for the most wins overall. After staking the Kiwis to a 4-0 lead in 2000, Coutts handed the wheel to his understudy, Dean Barker, and watched the clinching race from a chase boat. The Kiwis, meanwhile, worked through the night to replace the shattered mast with the one from their backup boat. Many New Zealanders seem resigned that they're going to lose the trophy that Coutts and his team brought here in 1995 after beating Conner 5-0 off San Diego. When the Kiwis left the harbor three hours before the scheduled start, there were far fewer people lining the waterfront than there had been two weeks earlier for Race 1. espn.go.com