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First leg win for Ken Read 15 minutes ahead spanish team
PUMA held firm in the face of a relentless attack from Telefónica to clinch an epic Leg 5 victory on Friday, crossing the finish line in Itajaí, Brazil with a winning margin of just 12 minutes after the Spanish team had threatened to complete one of the great sporting comebacks. -
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Franck Cammas : "this dismasting takes away a fair old dose of our chances for outright victory"
It was at 0455 UTC this morning that Franck Cammas and his crew tied Groupama 4 to the dock in the port of Punta del Este. That equates to twelve hours after their dismasting, which occurred on Wednesday 4 April at 1502 UTC, some sixty miles offshore of the coast of Uruguay. -
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Cammas and crew round Cape Horn ahead
Franck Cammas and his men rounded Cape Horn this Friday at 1255 UTC and are leading this fifth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race. They still have 1,700 miles to go before they reach Brazil and the Americans are putting increasing pressure on them as Puma is just an hour astern of Groupama 4. -
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Franck Cammas : "We hit 32 knots in one surf"
Groupama 4 was the first to get past the third and final ice gate limit at 0635 UTC this Tuesday. As such the route towards Cape Horn is now open. Some 1,200 miles from the legendary rock, Franck Cammas and his men had another hard night prior to what is shaping up to be a quieter day, with the final stretch of the South Pacific due to come to (…) -
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Kiwi team wins Auckland In-Port Race
Local heroes CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand stormed to victory in front of tens of thousands of ecstatic home fans in the Auckland In-Port Race on Saturday, giving them a first Volvo Ocean Race victory and ‘flicking a switch’ on their campaign. -
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PUMA Ocean Racing takes 2nd place in Auckland
PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG won an epic battle for second place on Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Sunday, clinching the runner’s up spot on a rainy morning in Auckland to complete a memorable comeback and secure their first offshore podium place in 2011-12. -
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French team secured a dramatic victory in Auckland
Groupama sailing team survived a late scare to secure a dramatic victory on Leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Saturday, crossing the finish line shortly before midnight in Auckland to end Team Telefónica’s winning streak and give New Zealander Brad Marsh a homecoming of a lifetime. -
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New win Team for Telefónica crew during Sanya in-port race
Team Telefónica held off a fierce challenge from PUMA to win the Sanya Haitang Bay In-Port Race on Saturday and extend their overall lead to 18 points before the start of Leg 4 to Auckland. -
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Giovanni Soldini and his team establish a time reference for the Cadiz-San Salvador record
Giovanni Soldini and his crew took 10 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes and 2 seconds to travel the 3884 miles of the orthodromic route which links Cadiz to San Salvador, thus establishing an excellent time reference - the first - for the monohull category. -
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Third leg win for Telefónica into the Chinese port of Sanya
Telefónica became the first team since Steinlager 2 in 1989-90 to win the first three legs of the Volvo Ocean Race when they held off the challenge of Groupama sailing team to arrive first into the Chinese port of Sanya on Saturday.
