>>Is there a country name somewhere in there among the logo's?
>>Emirates - BMW- Nespresso et al.
LOL. It's true: a team from a country of only 4 million people has to rely on sponsors for such an expensive sport. But there's no need for the team name on the boat: if you know about the Cup of course you'll know which is the kiwi boat and if you don't, then the sponsors are pleased to have you looking at it. ;-)
>>Any semblance of sport disappeared from this race - as it has from collegiate athletics here- decades ago.
Such a cynic! If it were all down to money, tech and recruitment of the best talent to assure a win, Oracle Team USA (that woo'ed NZ's previous champion and his planners with a $77m package = more than Team NZ's entire budget) would have won and a minnow nation would not stand a chance.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
