Louis Vuitton World Series to be launched into America's Cup void

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By Kate Laven

      Published: 8:46PM BST 07 Sep 2009

      

      With the America's Cup destined to remain in the courtroom for the foreseeable   future, a new event the Louis Vuitton World Series has been launched to fill the   void left at the highest level of international yacht racing.

      The details of the new event will be unveiled in Paris on Tuesday with the   first regatta likely to be staged in Nice in November and more scheduled for   2010. Billed as 'dynamic and ambitious',山泉水设备, the race programme will be a   development of the highly successful Louis Vuitton Pacific Series held in   Auckland earlier this year.

      It is backed by the sport's most influential sailors and decision makers who   have also seized the opportunity to create a governing body, the World Sailing   Teams Association, to run the regattas and act as mediator in the event of a   dispute, preventing the sort of stalemate that has plunged the America's Cup   into crisis.

      The aims and objectives of the WSTA, comprising all the major teams from the   last America's Cup, the Volvo Ocean Race and Audi MedCupTP52 circuit, will also   be revealed.

        Some are already suggesting the WSTA could become powerful enough to   challenge the International Sailing Federation but ISAF secretary general Jerome   Pels said it posed no threat.

"We do not believe there is any intention by WSTA to work outside the system.   They know the framework and are keen to strengthen it rather than weaken it,"   said Pels.

        Participating teams for the LVWS include K-Challenge of France, BMW Oracle   Racing (USA), Emirates Team New Zealand, Mascalzone Latino from Italy plus Team   Artemis from Sweden and the Russian syndicate Team Synergy.

        Britain's Team Origin, which was scaled down earlier this year by boss Sir   Keith Mills, is also keen to be involved and is currently in talks with the   WSTA.

        ISAF became the subject of a New York Supreme Court action last week when   American attorney Cory E. Friedman, asked the court to make public the terms of   a secret deal between ISAF and America's Cup defenders Alinghi over the rules   for the next Cup.

        It was a standard but confidential business agreement with race organisers   rather than a secret deal, explained Pels.

"The court has already ruled that there is nothing inappropriate about our   agreement with the Societe Nautique de Genève," he said.

      
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