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Defending America’s Cup champion Alinghi of Switzerland said Thursday it will forfeit the oldest trophy in international sports if U.S. challenger BMW Oracle Racing succeeds in getting a New York court to disqualify the sails on its giant catamaran. “We have been clear: If BMW Oracle succeeds in disqualifying the defender’s sails, then there will be no match,” said Fred Meyer, vice commodore of Alinghi’s backing yacht club, Societe Nautique de Genève. “Russell Coutts will have won the America’s Cup for Larry Ellison without sailing.” In other words, they’d take their ball and go home.
