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Where online in the US can you watch full coverage of today's America's Cup races?

Asked by Adagio (14059points) September 7th, 2013

My brother in the US would like to watch full coverage of the first 2 America’s Cup races online. Can you give me a website address for doing such a thing? Thanks so much.

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Adagio's avatar

Surely someone can help me?

CWOTUS's avatar

Apparently some of the coverage can be seen on YouTube, but I’m not sure if live coverage is provided online or not.

Adagio's avatar

Here in NZ full coverage of both races can be watched on one of our TV stations, I thought it would be available on some station in the US, no? The same NZ station also provides full coverage online, on demand.

CWOTUS's avatar

Sailing is not as universally popular in the USA as it is in NZ. A lot of the television networks that one would think might cover it, such as ESPN, have “sailing” in general (Olympics and AC both) far down on their list of sports that they think viewers (read “advertisers”) are interested in. So television coverage of the races is hard to find.

I’m a sailor, and I hardly care about these boats and these teams myself any more. In fact, I hadn’t even realized that the finals had started today.

Adagio's avatar

@CWOTUS I’m not a real sports fan but I’m really interested in the America’s Cup and would love to see it return to New Zealand. The races were fantastic to watch, it really was a race, I think the two boats/crew are quite evenly matched and so it really is sport, in the truest sense of the word. To take a different tack, excuse the pun, do you know a way of accessing something online that is reserved for viewers from a particular country, like watching on demand TV from another country?

CWOTUS's avatar

I’m sure that there is such a way / are such ways involving proxy servers in a way that hides your (final) IP address from the hosting server, but I’m not familiar with those methods.

In other words, let’s say that you can see something online in NZ which other parts of the world can’t share. It should be possible for a user in a blocked part of the world to log onto his normal ISP, then route his traffic through a server in NZ which itself accesses the in-country feed.

I’ll bet if you ask that as a topic question here you’ll get some better responses.

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