Dennis Conner wants it badly: the America's Cup, the pinnacle of yacht racing. He has been in more cup events than anyone else―nine. He first won it in 1974, then lost in 1983 as skipper for the New York Yacht Club, breaking a 132-year winning streak. He won it back four years later and won it again in 1988. (Challenges to the incumbent occur irregularly.) Now head of his Team Dennis Conner, he has already left his base in San Diego, California, for New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf to begin four months of elimination races in the Louis Vuitton Cup. That event will yield a challenger for the reigning cup holder, New Zealand, in February. This time, however, Conner must overcome a boatload of billionaire rivals he jeeringly dismisses as "the B's."
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