{"id":2507,"count":31,"description":"\"\"\r\n\r\nOrient Express Team France is a long-rumoured French America's Cup<\/a> team and was the last team to enter the 2024 America's Cup<\/a>, with their entry finally officially announced in early January 2023.\r\n\r\nTeam Name:<\/strong> France K-Challenge Racing<\/span> \r\n<\/span>Yacht club:<\/strong> Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Nautique de Saint-Tropez\r\n<\/span>Skipper:<\/strong> France Quentin Delapierre (FRA)<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe Accor hotel group has officially committed to the French challenge for the 37th America\u2019s Cup naming its Orient Express brand as title partner.\r\n\r\nWith this sponsor onboard, the French challenge was named Orient Express Team, having previously taken the name K-Challenge when their entry was initially announced.\r\n\r\nThe Orient Express Team will be sailing under the flag of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 nautique de Saint-Tropez and the for the 37th America\u2019s Cup in Barcelona in 2024 will be led by Stephane Kandler and Bruno Dubois.\r\n\r\nThe French challenge will pick up the option of a latest generation technology package provided by the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand<\/a>, which should allow Orient Express Team to catch up on some of the time lost while other entrants are well down their design process.\r\n\r\nFrance has an on-off history in the America's Cup with French teams competing in a number of America's Cup events, the most recent being Groupama Team France in the 2017 America's Cup.\r\n\r\nOfficially, though, this group known as K-Challenge last challenged for the America\u2019s Cup for the 32nd edition in Valencia in 2007.","link":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/tag\/orient-express","name":"America's Cup Team: Orient Express Team France","slug":"orient-express","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/2507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=2507"},{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?tags=2507"},{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review?tags=2507"},{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eloqua_competitions?tags=2507"},{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subscription?tags=2507"},{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video?tags=2507"},{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/playlist?tags=2507"},{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?tags=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}