More Aussie Cheating
I’ve said it before so it won’t obviously stop me from saying it again – those Aussie just can’t help themselves.
Yep more examples of Aussie cheating have emerged with the story about the America’s Cup.
Funny that as the last we saw of the Aussies, their campaign was submerging!
Here’s the guts of it:
A boat designer has blown the whistle on a “lie” that allowed Australia to seize glory in the 1983 America’s Cup – the claim that Ben Lexcen invented the famous winged keel that propelled Alan Bond’s yacht to victory.
I don’t believe it … Aussies cheating to win. Who would have thought?
[Some dude] Van Oossanen has never wavered from his belief that Australia II deserved its victory, when weighed against the America’s Cup’s history of skulduggery, espionage and cheating.
But didn’t the Australia II syndicate cheat, at least technically? “Yes,” he says. “If everything had stayed the same, I would have taken this to my grave. But they are writing us out of history.”
Lexcen, van Oossanen says, did not design the boat’s key elements: the small hull over an upside-down keel with its famed winglets. They weren’t even Lexcen’s ideas.
Have to agree that cheating is almost compulsory at the America’s Cup which explains why the Aussies were the first to take the Cup away from the Yanks.
