BMW ORACLE Racing wins 33rd Match 14 Feb 2010
The Cup returns to the USA for the first time in
15 years
The American Challenger from the Golden Gate Yacht Club of San Francisco BMW ORACLE Racing today won the second race of the 33rd America's Cup Match. By doing so they have beaten the Swiss Defender Alinghi on the water and have won the America's Cup. 
The American team is only the fifth Challenger in 33 America's Cups to win. Today's victory marks the end of the controversial 33rd cycle and the start of the 34th cycle.
At time of writing the identity of the new Challenger of Record has not been announced, but it is expected to be revealed in the following hours. The plans and timeline for the next America's Cup cycle are expected to be announced over the following days.
TEAMORIGIN will be studying the plans carefully when they become available and will make its intentions clear shortly.
Commenting at the conclusion of racing today TEAMORIGIN's Principal Sir Keith Mills had this to say:
“I’m really glad to see that the fog that has beset the America’s Cup for the last two and half years has lifted almost overnight. The sporting contest that took place on the waters of Valencia over the past few days has been demonstrative and overwhelming. In the next 24 hours or so TEAMORIGIN expects the lasts whisps of mist to disappear when the new Defender and its Challenger of Record announce their mutual consent plans for the 34th America’s Cup. We look forward to that moment.”
