By Guy Heveldt'Mr America's Cup' wants Team New Zealand to win back the Auld Mug. ×Conner also believes this could be the last time Sir Russell Coutts will be involved in the America's Cup. Coutts, who led Team NZ to its famous victory over Conner's Young America in 1995 in San Diego, before defending the Cup on the Hauraki Gulf in 2000, is head of the America's Cup Events Authority and Oracle Team USA. Who is Dennis Conner:• Tagged "Dirty Dennis" by his detractors and "Mr America's Cup" by his supporters, Conner,74, lives in California. • Conner won the America's Cup four times, defending in 1974, 1980, and 1988 and winning as the challenger in 1987.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 22, 2017 17:09 UTC