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What do you think the result will be? The protest will be dismissed. Any other result is ridiculous. The URLs chosen by each team were available well before the start of the race. They were even published by this esteemed sailing site the day before the start. Surely any sensible team would then have visited all of the 48 sites listed to get a good gauge of the information that will available to them during the race.

Upon visiting the site in question every team including illbruck themselves would have encountered the default server information which includes the following message: "If you are seeing this instead of the content you expected, please contact the administrator of the site involved. If you send mail about this to the authors of the Apache software, NetRevolution, or to the distributors of the operating system, who almost certainly have nothing to do with this site, your message will be ignored. You are probably seeing this page because the server is not yet fully configured."

This clearly indicates that the fault lies with the website configuration rather than illbruck. Furthermore having encountered this any team could have carried out a simple search on Google for instance for "weather AND http://atmosfera.lma.fi.upm.es" immediately yielding the /rms link to the weather information expected (as well as all the current coverage of the protest obviously). Assa Abloy have clearly discovered the /rms link in order to lodge the protest. I suspect they probably found it well before the start of the race, if not, it only took them six hours to find it having arrived wet and tired in Cape Town.

The information is relatively easily found by any diligent navigator and hence available to all teams. illbruck should not be penalised for an error by the web site administrator since in my mind they have gained no advantage. As an aside, it is unlikely that this detailed weather information for the Iberian peninsula could have helped Assatake a different route to the tactical blunder off South America that threw their Leg 1 chances away.

From Argo Mail
What do you think the result will be? If iIlbruck has actually used the sub-website in question, the result has to be a penalty, since they have clearly listed a wrong web-site, and then used a web-site that was not available to the rest of the competitors. It might be that the error made by iIlbruckwas not deliberate, but it's still an error and has to be penalized. Adding 4-5 places to iIlbruck's result would seem to be sensible. If this was to go through without penalty or with just 1-2 places penalty this would open up for serious "cheating". Next time the web-site listed as "almost correct" might be a custom website made specifically for the team that made the "error". It's tough on iIlbruck , but they made the mistake and have to pay.

From Philippa Clarke
What do you think the result will be? I think this is a pathetic move on the part of Assa Abloy, and is simply a reflection of poor yachtsmanship. It's down right ridiculous that sailing has come to this!

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