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Eight challengers from seven nations have been confirmed for the opening race of the new america's cup world series in august in portugal.Also competing with two boats will be defending champion oracle racing of san francisco.Representatives from oracle racing, team new zealand, artemis racing of sweden, china team, team korea, venezia challenge of italy and two teams from france, energy team and aleph equipe de france, appeared together wednesday in san francisco, where the 34th america's cup will be contested in 2013.The identity of the eighth foreign challenger will be announced in europe on june 23.Organizers had expected the numbers to shake out from the original list of 15 teams from 12 countries that filed entries earlier this year. "When we started back in september, this is where we thought it would be,"Said iain murray, an australian sailor who's the ceo of america's cup race management and the regatta director. "We built 10 boats.It was pretty clear this is where we thought we'd end up.We're very pleased. "The teams will sail 45 foot catamarans for the two seasons of the acws.A 72 foot catamaran will be used for the louis vuitton cup for challengers and the america's cup match in 2013, both on san francisco bay.The first stop of the ac world series will be in cascais, portugal, from aug.6 14.The other regattas this year will be in plymouth, england, from sept.10 18, and San Diego from Nov.12 20.Oracle racing, owned by software tycoon larry ellison, will sail two boats in the acws this season and next.Since no other defense candidate has emerged, oracle will need as much in house competition as possible.On monday, oracle racing ceo russell coutts, a four time america's cup winner, generated some serious buzz for the sport when louis vuitton Men Taiga Leather he capsized the ac45 he was sailing against syndicate skipper jimmy spithill.Coutts was thrown through the boat's wing sail and into the water during the spectacular wipeout.The syndicate at first said that it was grinder shannon falcone who was thrown through the wing sail.Falcone was thrown into the water.He was examined by paramedics on the dock and taken to the hospital for x rays. "It's a hollywood script, isn't it,"Murray chuckled.Coutts wasn't the first to flip louis vuitton Women Monogram Multicolore Canvas an ac45.Spithill, artemis racing and team new zealand all capsized during initial sea trials in new zealand earlier this year. "It just goes to show you, the 45s are just a training boat, but even in the hands of a gold medal winning, four time america's cup winning skipper, it can cut you out,"Murray said. "All the main players are finding the limits of where these boats are.They're powerful, light boats, and if you're not on your toes the whole time, just a nano second of not being on top of it and you can be upside down. "Team new zealand and artemis racing appear to be the strongest of the challengers.Team new zealand is a two time america's cup winner both with coutts as skipper and made it to the 2007 match before losing to alinghi of switzerland.
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