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Luna Rossa warms the sails in Cagliari for the new America’s Cup

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Luna Rossa warms the sails in Cagliari for the new America’s Cup

The venue for the next edition will be unveiled on Thursday, Barcelona is the favorite. Molo Ichnusa is revived in view of the resumption of the activity of the Italian Consortium

CAGLIARI. Like all the challenging teams of the 37th edition of the America’s Cup, Luna Rossa is also waiting to know the venue that will host the most prestigious and long-lived sailing regatta in the world, born in England in 1851. The countdown on the name of the city that will make the scenario for the America’s Cup is almost over: it should be revealed by Thursday by the owner of the Old Silver Jug, Team New Zealand. It seems that the competition is heading towards Europe, after the regattas that in 2021 consecrated Emirates Team New Zealand to Auckland, New Zealand, which beat Luna Rossa 7 to 3.

It is becoming increasingly probable that Barcelona will host the prestigious competition in 2024. The Catalan city seems to have an advantage over its competitors, including two other Spanish cities, such as Valencia and Malaga. Cork in Ireland and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia remain in contention. The prices of the capital of Catalonia have risen after the inspection carried out just over ten days ago by Grant Dalton, manager of Team New Zealand, the syndicate of the trophy won a year ago in Auckland. For Spain it would be the third time, after the editions of 2007 and 2010 in Valencia, by the will of Alinghi of Ernesto Bertelli, then the Swiss keeper who hijacked the competition in the Iberian Peninsula, after the victories of the America’s Cup in 2003 and 2007.

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The challengers are waiting for the name of the city that will host the new America’s Cup to be finally revealed but an unknown factor remains due to the unhappy period caused by the war in Ukraine, which could perhaps postpone the official announcement of the definitive venue that will host it by a few days. the 37th America’s Cup.

Meanwhile, Luna Rossa is looking at the Cagliari headquarters of the Ichnusa pier, where the “purchasing campaign” continues to set up the new Prada team led by Max Sirena, who will be reduced to cut costs as well as the crew who, with the new protocol, it will go from 11 to 8 elements on board.

Waves the tricolor on the flagpole of the Luna Rossa base, where peace seems to dominate. But it is only an apparent calm, because inside work is being done to build the new team that will participate in the America’s Cup. Francesco Checco Bruni and the Australian James Spithill.

The walk at the base of the Ichnusa pier, where the photos that tell the path of Luna Rossa stand out, is becoming animated with the first onlookers who try to peek through the fence of the sports village. The Sardinian people of sailing dreams, in which the regret is still alive for not having been able to attend the World Series regattas two years ago, valid as an approach stage to Auckland, which had been scheduled in the last week of April 2020, canceled for the great emergency due to the coronavirus. Will it be remedied now?

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