Sailing: Nicorette wins storm-battered Sydney-Hobart race
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HOBART, Tasmania Nicorette survived high winds and heavy seas that knocked out the two favored entries to win the Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race on Wednesday.
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MARK COLVIN: The track was dead, the weather was atrocious, but today&#39;s Melbourne Cup produced one of the great results, and rewrote the history of the race.
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LONDON - A clinical second-half performance in the wet carried Australia to a 32-12 victory over a gallant but error-prone New Zealand side in their Tri-Nations test in London yesterday.
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SYDNEY-Hobart race organisers yesterday declared they would not delay today&#39;s race despite the worst weather warning for the classic since the 1998 disaster.
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Injured captain is winched to safety at the second attempt as stricken ship rolls in gale-force winds
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A fully loaded cup yacht hurtling through the ocean in a decent breeze is exhilarating, if not a little frightening. I&#39;m on Emirates Team New Zealand as 18th man for the last match of the day, against Italian challengers +39.
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In a classic duel on high seas, the challenger from New Zealand prevailed in a race with eight lead changes Tuesday to beat defending champion Alinghi and pull ahead 2-1 in the America's Cup.
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Race leaders Konica Minolta from New Zealand and Australia&#39;s Skandia are this morning sailing towards Bass Strait in their extraordinary repeat boat-for-boat duel for line honours in the 60th anniversary Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
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The three favourites for this year&#39;s Sydney to Hobart yacht race are battling for the lead along the New South Wales south coast.
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Race leader Konica Minolta and defending champion Skandia retired from the Sydney to Hobart yacht race to leave Nicorette in front with 124 miles left.
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SYDNEY  - The 60th Sydney to Hobart yacht race started in perfect conditions but the fleet was heading into a storm overnight that revived painful memories of the 1998 race when six sailors drowned in mountainous seas.
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Drama hit the Sydney-Hobart race on the second night when the two leading boats were badly damaged in storm-force winds off the Tasmanian coast.
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Crews contesting this year's Sydney to Hobart yacht race starting on Boxing Day will face the most severe weather conditions since 1998, when six sailors drowned, meteorologists warned.
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Ellen MacArthur has endured stormy seas, 65 mph winds, a broken sail, burns, bruises and exhaustion - even a close encounter with a whale. The payoff: a solo around-the-world sailing record.
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Winning skipper Ludde Ingvall has described the conditions he and the crew of Nicorette endured during the 60th Sydney to Hobart as the worst he has experienced.
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Ludde Ingvall and his crew on Nicorette have claimed the early honours by being the first boat out of the heads on Sydney Harbour in the race to Hobart on Sunday.
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Sydney, Australia - Possible strong winds and heavy seas could play a role in the 60th Sydney to Hobart yacht race, organisers said on Saturday, on the eve of the start of the annual blue-water classic that runs to the island state of Tasmania.