Geo Quiz

America’s Cup

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We’re looking for a Spanish port city in today’s Geo Quiz. This city is preparing to host the next America’s Cup sailing competition in February.

There’s been some doubt about the venue for this major international sailing event. But barring a last minute appeal, the race will be staged in Spanish waters. The likely host city has been the venue before.

This time the US team is going for America’s Cup glory with a radically redesigned yacht.

“Its very high performance, very light, very stiff, very strong but doesn’t take shock knock or abuse at all and so its out on the limit of engineering knowledge as we know it, and is a big step from anything ever done before.”

We reveal the name of the likely host city for the next America’s Cup…

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The next America’s Cup is scheduled to get underway in February. This top international sailing competition will most likely be staged in the Mediterranean — near the Spanish port of Valencia.

And that’s the answer to our Geo Quiz today. We say most likely because there’s legal wrangling still going on over the venue. But the two teams are starting to ship their equipment to Valencia. The defending champion is from Switzerland — the team is called Alinghi. The challenger is from the United States — the BMW-Oracle team.

Oracle believes its got a winning yacht design up its sleeve. Just listen to team members describe their boat.

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