On the AC and the weight issue...

The international jury investigating illegal weight placements by Oracle Team USA during the America’s Cup World Series said it won’t announce a decision until early next week.

On the America’s Cup website, the jury also announced it delayed a hearing for the Oracle team management from Thursday to Friday, apparently because its interviews took so long.

Two members of the five-person jury have spent the last three days investigating the case and interviewing 16 members of the team and five members of America’s Cup Race Management.

Depending on how severely the jury of the International Sailing Federation decides to punish Oracle, the defending champion could be forced to forfeit races in the best-of-17 finals against Emirates Team New Zealand beginning Sept. 7.