[singlepic id=5218 w=300 h=204 float=left]America’s Cup – Newport – Lo Stato del Rhode Island ha reso noto di aver creato un comitato che lavorerà per tentare di assicurare la nomina di Newport come sede della 34ma America’s Cup. A darne notizia è stato l’ufficio del Governatore congiuntamente al Presidente del Senato, Teresa Paive Weed, e della Camera, Gordon Fox. Il comitato sarà coordinato dal Ministero dello Sviluppo Ecomico.
Il gruppo di lavoro comprenderà alcuni esperti di vela, amministratori pubblici di Newport e alte cariche dello Stato. Il primo meeting del comitato, coordinato da Keith Stokes, è in programma questa settimana.
“L’obiettivo è quello di fare il punto della situazione circa le strutture che abbiamo a disposizione, valutarne l’efficienza e avanzare una porposta seria per portare qui la Coppa America” ha spiegato Stokes.
Tutto ciò dovrà essere fatto prima che i responsabili di BMW Oracle Racing, incluso il CEO di Oracle, Larry Ellison, si rechino nel Rhode Island in occasione del Victory Tour: un vero e proprio tour organizzato per mostrare la Coppa America ai quattro angoli del paese.
Secondo voci non confermate, le sedi in lizza per l’assegnazione dell’evento sono tre: San Francisco, San Diego e Newport.
AMERICA’S CUP, A COMMITEE PRO NEWPORT AND RHODE ISLAND
[Source The Providence Journal] State leaders have established an America’s Cup 2013 Planning Committee to create a pitch to lure the America’s Cup challenge back to Rhode Island.
The governor’s office along with Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed and House Speaker Gordon D. Fox, announced Friday that it has formed the committee, to be coordinated through the Economic Development Corporation.
The group, which will include a combination of yachting experts, Newport administrators and state officials, will meet for the first time next week, said EDC Executive Director Keith Stokes.
“The goal is to assess the existing marine assets and facilities we have so we can create a formal proposal for the America’s Cup races,” Stokes said in an interview Friday.
He said he hopes to have that pitch ready by the time members of the BMW Oracle Racing team, including Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, visit Rhode Island on an East Coast leg of their Victory Tour, following their capture of the 33rd Cup challenge in Valencia, Spain, this month.
After winning, Ellison cited three U.S. cities as possible locations for the next challenge in 2013: San Francisco, San Diego and Newport.
Team officials have not yet confirmed when that visit will take place, but Stokes said he has spoken to BMW Oracle representatives who have indicated their interest in receiving a proposal at that time.
Stokes said he believes the Cup will travel first to Washington, D.C., before coming to Rhode Island sometime in the near future.
In addition to the EDC director, other members of the committee are Robin Wallace, chairman of the Rhode Island State Yachting Committee; Halsey Herreshoff, president of the Herreshoff Marine Museum and America’s Cup Hall of Fame; David Elwell, commodore of the New York Yacht Club; W.H. Dyer Jones, America’s Cup regatta manager in Valencia and Auckland, New Zealand; and Michael Keyworth, of the Rhode Island Marine Trades Association. All are also members of the Rhode Island State Yachting Committee.
The planning committee also includes Brad Read, executive director of Sail Newport; Ed Lavelle, Newport city manager; Mark Brodeur, Rhode Island tourism director, as well as yet unnamed designees of Fox and Paiva Weed.
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