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Oracle capsize and youth crew go overboard as America's Cup accidents increase

QUOTE-UNQUOTE — "Training accidents continue to blight the buildup to the America's Cup with defender Oracle Team USA and the Bermuda youth team the latest to suffer mishaps. Two days after surviving a high-speed wobble that almost resulted in a practice race capsize, Jimmy Spithill tipped Oracle's AC50 on its side in the Great Sound while working on starting manoeuvres. And two Bermuda Youth America's Cup sailors were taken to hospital following a training mishap." --Report on Monday's Stuff.co.nz website....

Skipper Jimmy Spithill at the helm of Oracle during the America's Cup world series.

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