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	Russell Coutts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russell Coutts DCNZM CBE (born 1 March 1962) is a New Zealand–born competitive sailor and is considered by many to be the best match racer in the world.
		In late July 2004, Coutts' employment with Alinghi Holdings was terminated over allegations of contractual breach.
		In March 2005, Coutts and Bertarelli reached an amicable settlement that included a clause that Coutts would not sail for another syndicate in the next America's Cup.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russell_Coutts (170 words)

	Athlete Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Coutts was ranked the world No 2 behind fellow New Zealander Chris Dickson in 1990, by which time he’d scored notable wins in races like the Kouros Cup in France, the Columbus Cup in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay and the Liberty Cup on New York harbour.
		Coutts showed his ability as a sailor and an organiser by building the Alinghi team so quickly that in 2002-03 the Swiss team not only outclassed all opposition to win the Louis Vuitton Trophy, but then whitewashed Team New Zealand in the America’s Cup final.
		Though Coutts was reviled by some because he had moved his allegiance to a foreign country and had played a large part in taking the America’s Cup from New Zealand’s shores, few could quibble with the quality of his sailing and he was named a finalist in the 2003 Halberg Awards.
	www.olympic.org.nz /AthleteProfile.aspx?ID=357&ContactID=1342 (939 words)

	November Contents
		Coutts did enough to be placed among the three leaders at the end of each day while Baird found the light and tricky weather to be in his favour, emerging at the end of the round robins as the series leader with 13 wins and five defeats.
		Coutts’ problem was purely academic as Gilmour had been fl flagged for the incident which had led to Coutts hitting the mark.
		Coutts was smiling, he and his crew have, throughout the season, appeared to be faster than their opponents in the stronger winds.
	www.sailingsource.com /seahorse/9611-Nov/coutts.htm (861 words)

	AmericaOne - Russell Coutts
		After finishing as runner-up to Italy's Il Moro di Venzia in the 1992 challenger trials, Coutts brought the America's Cup home to a hero's welcome in Auckland, where a staggering 85 percent of the country had watched the 1995 Cup finals on television.
		Coutts earned his reputation as a fierce competitor in 1993 with one of the most sensational battles ever seen in international match racing.
		Earlier, Coutts' determination to win became the stuff of legend as it drove him to sail, against medical advice, in the 1984 Olympics.
	www.americaone.org /news/ac-news/coutts.html (290 words)

	Alinghi Swiss Challenge
		Coutts claims the rift with Bertarelli began within weeks of Alinghi's rousing 5-0 victory in Auckland last year, that he has been in correspondence with Bertarelli since the start of the year and engaged in mediation for the past two months.
		Coutts refused to helm Alinghi in Newport, America, and had also refused to sail with the Team Alinghi crew at recent regattas in Marstrand, Sweden, Trieste, Italy and in Lisbon, Portugal, where the regattas were about to commence.
		Russell Coutts, the most successful America's Cup skipper in history, now at loggerheads with the current Swiss holders, might be the only cup sailor in 153 years to have the rules altered expressly with him in mind.
	www.cupineurope.com /LatestNews/2007-Alinghi-EN7.htm (1969 words)

	Russell Coutts -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Russell Coutts (additional info and facts about DCNZM) DCNZM (additional info and facts about CBE) CBE (b.
		Coutts left New Zealand to join the (additional info and facts about Alinghi) Alinghi (additional info and facts about America's Cup) America's Cup (A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities) Syndicate run by (additional info and facts about Ernesto Bertarelli) Ernesto Bertarelli.
		In late July 2004, Coutts' employment with (additional info and facts about Alinghi) Alinghi Holdings was terminated over allegations of contractual breach.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/russell_coutts.htm (164 words)

	ESPN.com - Coutts settles with Alinghi, won't sail for another team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		New Zealander Russell Coutts, the most dominant skipper in America's Cup history, will not try for a fourth straight title in the 2007 regatta as part of a settlement with the Alinghi syndicate.
		Coutts was fired by the Swiss group in July after a falling out with syndicate head Ernesto Bertarelli over management of defense of the Cup in Valencia, Spain.
		After he was fired, Coutts said Bertarelli, a biotech billionaire who was navigator during Alinghi's five-race sweep of Team New Zealand in March 2003, changed the eligibility rules in a deliberate bid to keep him from racing for another team in 2007.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=2020938&type=story (600 words)

	CNNSI.com - More Sports - Coutts moves to 'clear the air' on Team NZ break-up - Friday January 31, 2003 07:28 ...
		Coutts' decision to leave Team New Zealand and to join the Swiss syndicate of biotech billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli made him a sporting outcast in his own country and the target of a campaign of abuse.
		Coutts painted a picture Friday of the progressive collapse over two years of his relationship with leading figures in Team New Zealand: those who operated the team as a charitable trust and managed its associated companies.
		Coutts said the final and formal decision to leave was made after a meeting with Bertarelli and Alinghi executive director Michel Bonnefous in New York on May 4.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /more/news/2003/01/31/coutts_nz_ap (534 words)

	ABC Sport - Sport - America's Cup holders sack winning skipper
		Coutts won the sporting world's oldest trophy for New Zealand in 1995 and defended it five years later before defecting to Alinghi and winning it for the Swiss syndicate against his homeland last year.
		Coutts had been at odds over his duties with Alinghi boss Ernesto Bertarelli for several weeks, while the team claimed repeated violations of his duties by Coutts had led to his sacking.
		Coutts refused to helm Alinghi in Newport, Rhode Island, and had also refused to sail with the Team Alinghi crew at recent regattas in Marstrand, Sweden, Trieste, Italy and Lisbon, Portugal, when the regattas were about to commence.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/content/200407/s1162486.htm (370 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Sacked skipper slams Alinghi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Coutts had been quiet on reasons for the fall out, hoping to have the issued sorted out by arbitration, but said he has now decided to respond to recent claims by Bertarelli, whom he accused of trying to "rewrite history".
		Coutts, an Olympic and world sailing champion, is the most successful skipper in the 152-year history of the America's Cup.
		But Coutts said it was "totally ridiculous" to make such a salary comparison, and was surprised Bertarelli was making an issue of the wage when he had previously said the dispute was not about money.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/346770.htm (479 words)

	ESPN.com: OLY - Alinghi's Coutts happy with boat, crew's experience
		AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- ESPN's Gary Jobson sat down with Russell Coutts, skipper of Alinghi, for this interview during a lay day caused by a lack of wind.
		Coutts -- Well it's difficult, I mean really this delay is much much longer than any of us would like, so one of the tricks is to try and keep the team focused, so that when we do go out sailing again they're ready to go.
		Coutts -- Well, they're in the best position to judge the need for that and I certainly respect the abilities of people like Tom Schnackenberg in the group to look at the situation objectively and judging by my past experience, I think its probably a good decision.
	espn.go.com /oly/ac2003/s/2003/0224/1513435.html (532 words)

	CNN.com - Coutts: 'Humiliating' TNZ lockout - Jan. 31, 2003
		Alinghi skipper Russell Coutts has spoken out on why he left Team New Zealand, saying he and other sailors were locked out of their base after successfully defending the America's Cup in 2000.
		Coutts said he was aware of the strong public reaction locally to his decision to challenge for the trophy he helped New Zealand win in San Diego in 1995.
		Police are investigating two letters sent to Team Alinghi members, Coutts and Butterworth according to media reports, threatening to harm their children and damage property.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/sailing/01/31/coutts.talks.ppl (401 words)

	CNN.com - Coutts becomes top Cup skipper - Mar. 2, 2003
		Coutts, who turned 41 on Saturday, led Alinghi to victory in the fifth race of the best-of-nine series over defenders Team New Zealand on Sunday, racking up his 14th Cup win -- one better than Conner.
		Coutts helmed the first four races in 2000 before stepping off the boat and handing the helm to his understudy Dean Barker, now Team New Zealand skipper, for the fifth and final race of that series.
		Coutts, an Olympic and world match racing champion, is also the first skipper to lead a European syndicate to victory in the Cup's 152-year-old history.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/sailing/03/02/coutts.record.ppl (452 words)

	boats.com - News: Russell Coutts wins the Colorcraft Gold Cup
		Coutts and Dickson, who first started sailing against each other as schoolboys in their native New Zealand, are now representing new America's Cup teams from opposite sides of the globe.
		Coutts was sailing under the colors of Ernesto Bertarelli's Swiss Challenge syndicate, while Dickson was racing for Larry Ellison's Oracle Racing Team from San Francisco, California.
		The final between Coutts and Dickson was a meeting of old rivals, who first butted heads as schoolboys, and later did battle around the international match racing scene back in the early nineties.
	www.boats.com /content/default_detail.jsp?contentid=11340 (587 words)

	Yachting World: America's Cup news
		Russell had a view that there shouldn't be payment for any of the assets of the old trust.
		Russell and Brad were told very early on the piece that were certain sponsors had been supportive for so long, that they had rights of first-refusal on certain terms, and in this case because of the loan, they had the right to be repaid.
		Russell Green in particular was adamant that that would not happen, that the existing trust had to be wound up, that the assets would be sold to the new structure and that existing loans to the existing sponsors, totalling $5.6 million dollars, would have to be repaid.
	www.ybw.com /auto/newsdesk/20030106115559americascup.html (8882 words)

	Portugal Match Cup - Media Center - Press Releases
		Coutts now has six career victories on the Swedish Match Tour dating back to 2000, and is tied with Sweden’s Magnus Holmberg of the Victory Challenge.
		Coutts isn’t expected to compete on the Tour again until the season concluding Swedish Match Cup (July 4-10), so the championship will likely be decided between Baird and Gilmour, who will both compete next week at Stage 6 of the Tour season, Match Race Germany.
		Coutts and Gilmour, the two most experienced match-racers in the world, plied their trade in the four-minute pre-start sequence, and that generally decided the race.
	www.portugalmatchcup.com /cup_2005/en/press_releases_noticia.asp?press_id=86 (1125 words)

	America's Cup - Louis Vuitton Cup 2002-2003
		Alinghi skipper Russell Coutts revealed today the circumstances of his and Brad Butterworth's decision to leave Team New Zealand in May 2000.
		Russell said that at the time of defending the America's Cup in 2000, neither Brad nor he had any thought of sailing for any other syndicate.
		It is understood that following the departure of Russell Coutts and Brad Butterworth, Ralph Norris and Peter Menzies gave the old trustees an ultimatum as to what conditions were acceptable.
	www.sailtexas.com /whycouttsjumpedship.html (1722 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport \| Alinghi sack skipper Coutts
		Coutts admitted he had fallen out with Alinghi owner Ernesto Bertarelli but said he was shocked by the news.
		Coutts had sparked speculation he would quit the Swiss team after failing to take his place on the team's SUI 64 yacht at the regatta in Newport, Rhode Island last month.
		Concern that Coutts was already involved with another team also fuelled Alinghi's decision to end his spell at the helm.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/low/other_sports/3833055.stm (452 words)

	Jetsetters Magazine Sails With The America's Cup in Jetsetters Magazine at www.jetsettersmagazine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Coutts is now just one victory away from capturing his third consecutive America's Cup, and breaking Dennis Conner's record for America's Cup race victories.
		Russell Coutts, at the helm of Alinghi, hit the line exactly at the gun, with Team New Zealand about half a boatlength behind and to windward.
		Alinghi skipper Russell Coutts changed his mind midway through the pre-start, opting to take the right hand side of the course on the start line and nearly immediately realised a huge gain as the wind shifted dramatically in his favour.
	www.jetsettersmagazine.com /archive/jetezine/cruise02/sail/america/america.html (3555 words)

	Grand Prix Sailor 6/6/96
		Coutts and his stellar crew of Brad Butterworth, Simon Daubney and Warwick Fleury struggled through the quarterfinals, got ticked off in the semifinals, then rolled through the finals to claim the $25,000 Brut Cup of San Francisco last weekend.
		Coutts said he had difficulty downwind determining how far away from the boat the asymmetrical spinnaker should be flown.
		Coutts came out aggressive for that flight, deliberately pushing himself and Cayard over the line early, and gaining a three- to four-boatlength lead after restarting before Cayard.
	old.cruisingworld.com /gps/1996/gps2396.htm (2511 words)

	ESPN.com - 'Loyal' campaign makes Coutts more determined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Coutts: It was hard to begin with, but there are actually some advantages with bringing a different group together, particularly, when you have the opportunity to select who you want.
		Coutts: You've got to have an adequate budget, but once you have that, using your time wisely -- your time properly -- not wasting time is a big key.
		Coutts: Well, in this syndicate, certainly in an afterguard sense Jochen Schuemann, Brad Butterworth and Murray Jones are obviously a big part of the decision-making.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1505142&type=story (1988 words)

	981025
		Coutts and his long-time crew of Brad Butterworth, Simon Daubney, and Warwick Fleury put on a masterful display of tactical expertise which dazzled the several thousand spectators who came to watch the action on Hamilton Harbour.
		Coutts and Jones have tangled many times in the past, both in competition and in training as co-members of Team New Zealand, the current defender of the America's Cup.
		Coutts won that trophy in 1995 as the helmsman while Jones served in the afterguard.
	www.amcup.vi /981025.html (339 words)

	Dalton (head of the NZ team) has stated "Russell Coutts is a non issue
		I find it very, very interesting that Dalton (head of the NZ team) has stated "Russell Coutts is a non issue for the team NZ because of the tension of leaving NZ with ALINGHI the way he did and that bringing him back could prove to be difficult".
		COUTTS asked for a decent fee (I am sure) to sail for the 3rd time for NZ and they basically kicked him off the boat and replaced him with Dean Barker (a very good sailor).
		The AC was a lot of fun before Austrailia beat the US, it was taken over by the corporate world and bad design, slow very expensive boats with crazy multi million euro programs for the venue and teams (too serious and too much mula).
	www.sailinganarchy.com /readers/2005/NZvsCouttsvsAC.htm (714 words)

	America's Cup 2007 in Valencia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Also particularly damaging was regarded Russell Coutts' undisclosed involvement in the planning and development of a new race series, a commitment incompatible with his responsibilities and duties," Alinghi said.
		Coutts, the most successful sailor in America's Cup history, skippered the Alinghi yacht to a 5-0 victory over defending champion Team New Zealand in Auckland last year.
		Coutts said last month that there were "differences in management direction" between himself and the Alinghi syndicate's head, Ernesto Bertarelli.
	www.gotoauckland.com /haurakigulf/gulf/cup.htm (1075 words)

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