Big money, Big boats at the America's Cup

For more than 160 years, the oldest trophy in international sports has gone to the yacht that reigns supreme in America's Cup.

The best sailors, the fastest boats–life and death on the line. They go fast and they start racing, Saturday.

Dan Simon has the story.

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