Sailing spectators are set to be the biggest losers in a decision to drop two race courses from the America's Cup.
Team New Zealand says those courses would have given the closest views of the event.
The America's Cup Arbitration Panel today issued a ruling meaning two race courses just off Takapuna and Devonport won't be used.
Team New Zealand has slammed the decision - calling it terrible and shocking, and a huge loss for the Cup.
But Luna Rossa has hit back saying in a statement: "The attacks by Emirates Team New Zealand are intended solely at discrediting the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team with populist pretexts that tend to mask the attempt to gain an unfair advantage over the Challengers who, we repeat, unanimously supported COR 36 by each lodging their own independent submission."
Nita Blake-Persen reports.
