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FOX 5 San Diego Staff

7:30 a.m. PST, February 15, 2010
VALENCIA, SPAIN—
BMW Oracle won back the America's Cup, Sunday for the United States by speeding across the Mediterranean and routing two-time defending champion Alinghi of Switzerland in a two-race sweep.

The America's Cup has been away from U.S. shores for 15 years, the longest drought since America won the silver trophy by beating a fleet of British ships around the Isle of Wight in 1851. Dennis Conner lost it in 1995 to Team New Zealand and Russell Coutts, a three-time America's Cup winner who is now CEO of BMW Oracle Racing.
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