AN AMERICA’S CUP jury will meet today to hear a New York Yacht Club request that Seattle’s OneWorld Challenge be expelled from the premier sailing event for breaches of sportsmanship and fair play.

THOUGH Prada scored an important win in the only match to be completed in flight 6 of the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger series for the America’s Cup, GBR Challenge was saved from defeat by the very light winds.

IT used to be the sea breezes on distant tree boughs that gave the first clues of impending drama at the America’s Cup, but now the early excitement comes from the competitors’ efforts to peek under their rivals’ skirts.