Interviewed by Las Provincias, Chris Dickson wants to remain open to all possibilities in case of victory.

"The city made a great effort to build the infrastructure", the New Zealander said about Valencia. "I think the America's Cup will be linked with the City during the next years, through others acts or for another edition".

A very "politically correct" answer from a Spanish point of view. But Chris Dickson also remains very cagey about the expressing his position as an "open subject".

"The question was neither examined nor discussed in the Team", he said and then added that Larry Ellison never shared any information about that.

"Valence is an option but I repeat that nothinh is decided yet", Dickson said. "We have first to win the Cup".

When asked about the time schedule for the next America's Cup, Chris Dickson was more affirmative and explained that the Alinghi's calendar was not wanted by the American syndicate.

"After Alinghi won the America's Cup, we explained when we agreed to become the Challenger of Record that we don't want to wait until 2007", the New Zealander said. "On the contrary, we considered 2005 as the the really good year for the Cup".

"If we win the cup, we will choose the shortest possible time interval", Dickson concluded. "2009 seems to be the best time for me".