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SCA's first five sailors: meet the team
8 Apr 2013 Team SCA have named the first five sailors to their all-female team for the Volvo Ocean Race. Here, we profile the first confirmed sailors for the 12th edition of the world's premier round-the-world adventure.
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Recife gets into party spirit early
19 Feb 2013 Recife and Pernambuco proved the city and state will have no problem staging a real festival during the Volvo Ocean Race as hundreds of thousands of people thronged the streets for what governor Eduardo Campos called the 'greatest Carnival ever'.
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Knut's Kevlar cutlery
22 Oct 2012 Opening a box of Knut Frostad’s Volvo Ocean Race memorabilia is like taking a tour through the event's history. The race CEO walked us through his personal memories as he handed over his own Volvo Ocean Race collection to the Museum in Alicante.
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Franck Cammas: perfectionism personified
9 Jul 2012 At the age of just 39, Franck Cammas is already assured of his place in sailing history thanks to Groupama's debut victory in the Volvo Ocean Race. Here we profile the charismatic French skipper for whom perfection is never good enough.
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Cammas treats rivals to a speedy day out
23 Jun 2012 Franck Cammas treated rival skippers Chris Nicholson of CAMPER and Sanya's Mike Sanderson, along with Telefónica shore boss Horacio Carabelli, to a ride of a lifetime aboard his record breaking trimaran Groupama 3.
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Silence of the trams
6 Jun 2012 After weeks of gruelling ocean racing, there’s nothing quite like the peace and quiet of a Volvo Ocean Race stopover.
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On-water rivals trade blows on the green
5 Jun 2012 Old rivals Ken Read and Ian Walker took their duel off the water and on to Portugal’s golf greens this week, trading blows between bunkers and roughs in the inaugural Lisbon Open 70 Masters.
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Closing day for Lisbon VIP trip competition
20 May 2012 Calling all Europe-based Volvo Ocean Race fans – today is your last chance to enter the Portuguese National Tourism Office competition to win a VIP trip to the Lisbon stopover.
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The Tasker and Lester Show
24 Apr 2012 The door to the commentary box is lovingly decorated with a picture of the Statler and Waldorf duo from the Muppet Show but, inside, the Tasker and Lester show’s only obvious resemblance to the children’s favourites is the ever-present determination to add…
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Thank you, Facebook fans - 100,000 times!
9 Mar 2012 Our fan count on the Volvo Ocean Race Facebook page ticked over 100,000 at 1715 UTC on Friday -- just hours before the first boat is due into Auckland at the end of Leg 4.
