Coutts’ stance is that this was a freak chain of events that could easily have been avoided and is therefore not a great threat to the America’s Cup writ large. Not everyone agrees. One of the AC72′s most outspoken critics is Scott MacLeod, president of Force 10, a sports-marketing business, who has represented corporate sponsors in every Cup going back to 1992. “I told them that they had the wro

"I hope like hell that whoever survives this thing and wins it changes the boat class to anything safer than these God-forsaken death traps."

That statement from a crew member - on the condition of anonymity for himself and the team - summed up the general reaction to the death of 36-year-old Artemis sailor Andrew Simpson when the hulls of his America's Cup team's training yacht sna

Photos of the 2014 World Cup stadia

Ten teams of year 7 & 8 students battled it out for the title of best rocket scientist, in the inaugural NZ Rocketry Challenge on Sunday, at Ambury Regional Park in Auckland. Cheered on by a 150-strong crowd, these junior rocket engineers launched a raw hen's egg high into the air. To win, they needed to fly to a specific altitude, and their 'eggstronaut' had to come back safely and undamaged.

Twelve teams of students will be vying for the title of best rocket scientist this weekend, as they compete in the inaugural NZ Rocketry Challenge at Ambury Regional Park near Mangere Bridge, Auckland.

"The challenge is to design, build and fly a model rocket to a precise altitude, returning a raw egg - the astronaut - safely and undamaged," explained Mark Mackay, Ki

Romney’s Salt Lake City Olympic “success” omits a cover-up of athletes’ drugs usage and blood doping, a bid scandal cover-up, and crediting tax dollars as profits.

In the Games’ waning hours, a housekeeper found blood transfusion equipment and blood packets where the Austrian ski team stayed. She alerted the Wasatch County Sheriff. On March 1, 2002 in a column, “More Curious Material in Skiin

Among the teams represent at the London Olympics, one stands out. It is multinational, made up journalists and trained by political coaches to excel in all disciplines of falsification.

The gold medal goes to the British team, the best at disparaging the Chinese athletes, described as "cheats, freaks, robots." No sooner had swimmer Ye Shiwen won the competition than the BBC insinuated she had

The image of rows of empty seats continues to be a feature. At least 275,000 tickets remain unsold, including 200,000 soccer tickets. This is because many working people have been priced out of an event that has been dedicated instead to corporate junketing—including £2,012 tickets for the opening ceremony and £655 and £1,500 tickets for the close. Even less prominent events charge ludicrous sums

The Britain that won the Olympic bid in 2005 was very different from the Britain of today. That Britain had experienced several years of sustained growth, with low unemployment and practically nonexistent inflation. Britain was booming and London was swinging. The Olympics offered the chance to transform the landscape of the remaining poor parts of the capital and showcase it to the world as a co

Then, as now, the UK was hemorrhaging money and could ill-afford any further imperial meddling. It desperately cut and ran from empire and then slashed and rationed everything, and yet somehow at the same time constructed a welfare state and a globally envied National Health Service. The UK put on an Olympics – at a profit. This year’s Olympic hosts have been gleefully doing the opposite: cutting

London and the Olympic Games are clearly not made for each other. Visitors will need determination and, most of all, patience to reach the venues at all. And, for the locals, it all can't end soon enough.

Like warzone refugees, the best and therefore richest footballers in France fled as fast as their sports cars would carry them, pockets stuffed with cash from hurriedly emptied bank accounts and trailing agents and tax lawyers gleefully rubbing their hands.

Quite a doomsday scenario, eh? Yet French football administrators, coaches and players say an exodus like this could become reality if the

One telco staffer today said: "I too am disgusted at this ridiculous ad, already in my call centre some staff have had to field calls from angry customers who want to disconnect all services".

"I just wish the marketing [department] had run a poll with the staff to see what they thought before rolling the campaign out - everyone would have been against it.

"Makes me wan

So thats what you do with old circuit boards. Make yourself a particualrly attractive gold medal !!

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