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"By all reports, both vessels in this year’s 33rd staging of the America’s Cup (racing began in 1851, making it the world’s oldest active sports trophy) are capable of sailing two to three times faster than the wind, so fast in fact that “they make their own wind,” said Bryon Anderson, a physicist at Kent State University and a longtime sailor." - Kurt Starnes