For more information visit the official stopover site at www.oceanracestockholm.se.
KEY DATESPuma arrived into Stockhom as the overall winners of Leg 9 on 15 June at 20:43:10 following 01 day, 09 hours, 43 minutes and 10 seconds of sailingTelefonica Blue was the overall winner of the Stockholm in-port race which took place on the 21/06/2009
Leg 10 Start will take place on Thursday 25 June at 14:00 local time / 12:00 GMT.
Find out more about Leg 10 here.
DAILY ENTERTANMENT
The event area Race Village at Skeppsbron and Kungsträdgårdenis open 14-25 June, approximately 10.00-24.00 every day. Free entrance to the area and performances!
In Race Village you can also find food and refreshments, exhibitions, activities for children, the Volvo Ocean Race simulator and much more. The calendar may be subject to change.
Sunday 14 June11.00 - Race Village opens, Skeppsbron and Kungsträdgården12.00 - De Sotos performing12.50 - Live feed on big screens from the start of Leg 9 in Marstrand14.00 - Opening ceremony Race VillageCharlotte Perrelli and Daniel LindstrÖm performing19.00 - De Sotos performing00.00 - Race Village closes
Monday 15 June10.00 - Race Village opens10.15 - Start Junior Cup19.00 - Brandur performing00.00 - Race Village closes
Tuesday 16 JuneArrival Leg 9 Marstrand-Stockholm, in Sandhamn10.00 - Race Village opens10.15 - Start Junior Cup19.00 - Jimmy Jansson performing00.00 - Race Village closes
Wednesday 17 June10.00 - Race Village opens10.00 - Start Junior Cup11.50 approx - Live feed on big screens from Stockholm City SprintDownload the City Sprint course (700kb PDF)12.00 - Start Stockholm City Sprint (TorsbyfjÄrden)13:00-14.30 - Finish Stockholm City Sprint/The Volvo Open 70-yachts arrive to Skeppsbron15.15 - City Sprint Prize Giving on the main stage19.00 - Evening entertainment in cooperation with Ericsson, 1st show22.00 - Evening entertainment in cooperation with Ericsson, 2nd show00.00 - Race Village closes
Thursday 18 June10.00 - Race Village opens13.00 - Test sail a radio-controlled mini katamaran13.00 - Joachim Bergström performing16.00 - De Sotos performing18.00 - Joachim Bergström performing20:30 - The Fast Foward Performing00.00 - Race Village closes
Friday 19 June10.00 - Race Village opens12.00 - Chris Lind performing14.00 - Chris Lind performing00.00 - Race Village closes
Saturday 20 June10.00 - Race Village opens15.00 - Sarah Lundbäck performing18.00 - Sarah LundbÄck performing20.00 - Love Boat comes to Skeppsbron02.00 - Race Village closes
Sunday 21 June07.00 - Race Village opens10:00-18:00 - C55 sailing clinic for beginners at Skeppsbron in cooperation with Ericsson and Club Metro<12:00-15:00 - Close-Up magicians will be performing at the Race Village12.00 - Motor Yacht Society comes to Skeppsbron12.45 - Jas 39 Gripen flies over Kanholmsfjärden12.50 approx - Live feed on big screens from In-Port Race13.00 - Start In-Port Race (Kanholmsfjärden)16.00 - De Sotos performing20.00 - Prizegiving ceremony In-Port Race21.00 - Uno Svenningsson performing00.00 - Race Village closes
Monday 22 June10.00 - Race Village Öppnar 11.50 approx - Live feed on big screens from Pro/Am Race09.00 - Pro Am Race departure ceremony12.00 - 14:30 Pro Am race to start and finish at Skeppsbron. Rounding mark at Nacka strand. Three races are planned with good spectator views from the quays16.00 - Marmeladorkestern performing20.00 - Marmeladorkestern performing00.00 - Race Village closes
Tuesday 23 June10.00 - Race Village opens11:00 - 16:00 - A balloon clown will be appearing at the race village12.00 - Marmeladorkestern performing16.00 - Start Celebrity Race18.00 - Prizegiving ceremony Celebrity Race19.00 - Alcazar performing21.30 - The Poodles performing00.00 - Race Village closes
Wednesday 24 June10.00 - Race Village opens10:00 - 12.00 - Trimaran Multi23 racing on Strömmen, part of Multi Cup -0912.00 - Offshore trimarans SeaCart 30 racing on Strömmen13.00 - Marmeladorkestern performing17:00 - Model boats Volvo Open 70 Racing18:00 - Sudexo Food Race21.00 - Eric Gadd performing00.00 - Race Village closes
Thursday 25 June 07.00 - Race Village opens 07:30 - The Volvo Open 70 yachts leave Skeppsbron for the starting line (Download the Leg 10 course information - PDF 342 KB). 13.45 - Jas 39 Gripen flies over Kanholmsfjärden 13.50 - approx - Live feed on big screens from Start Leg 10, Stockholm-St Peterburg 14.00 - Start Leg 10, Stockholm-St Petersburg 17.00 - Winston performing00.00 - Race Village closes
For more information visit the official stopover site at www.oceanracestockholm.se
KEY DATES Estimated Yacht arrivals: 16/06/2009 In Port Race: 21/06/2009 1300hrs (Local Time) Leg 10 Start: 25/06/2009 1300hrs (Local Time)
MY STOCKHOLM
“Stockholm and Sweden was where I felt at home. In my heart I always felt Swedish and that’s the way it has always been. I love Stockholm and the contact I have with Södertälje. It is close to my heart”
Swedish tennis legend, Björn Borg, a Stockholm native, provides a personal view.
My very first memory of Stockholm is of water. We used to go out on the boat every summer when I was small; say from the age of three or four. When Rune, my father, was on holiday in July, we went out on the boat with the whole family.
We used to sail from Södertälje where I grew up, to Stockholm and then out to the Stockholm archipelago. We would pass through a lock before Stockholm, sail past Stockholm City Hall, pass through another lock and then out to the archipelago, towards the island of Möja. We always took the same route and I think that’s why my first memory of Stockholm is of water.
When I was thirteen years old, Stockholm took on a new significance for me because that’s when I started tennis training at Salk sports centre in Alvik.
I started playing tennis when I was eight years old; but I remember the first time I took the train from Stockholm from Södertälje and standing in Stockholm Central Station and then taking the underground to Alvik. After training my parents picked me up and I did my homework in the car on the way home.
When I left school after ninth grade to focus completely on tennis, I got to know the Engblom family who lived above their own hairdressing salon close by the Salk sports centre. The family let me stay overnight with them so that I didn’t have to travel back to Södertälje every night.
I think about how much training I have done; thousands upon thousands of hours on the tennis courts at the Salk sports centre and the Royal Tennis Hall. But that’s the way it was. I loved tennis and because it was my all consuming passion I didn’t see the training as a sacrifice. I think you have to have that level of interest if you are going to have any chance of succeeding. Your heart has got to be in it.
I played a lot of tennis in and around Stockholm, but it took some time for me to win the Stockholm Open. It was important for me to win on my home territory because there is that bit of added pressure and I really wanted to win it.
I suppose it is one of my favourite victories when I eventually won it in 1980. When I moved to Monaco in 1974 I hadn’t even turned nineteen.
And by the time I returned home, eleven years later, I had seen the world and just about everything else. I was given the opportunity to travel and live anywhere I wanted to, but it never felt natural to me. Stockholm and Sweden was where I felt at home. In my heart I always felt Swedish and that’s the way it has always been. I love Stockholm and the contact I have with Södertälje. It is close to my heart.
As I mentioned before, when I think of Stockholm I think of water. I don’t have a special place of my own in Stockholm, all of it is special to me.
Words: Rijkard Bjorke
If you have 24 hours in Stockholm, you could: Take the Katarina lift up from Slussen to Mosebacke hill for the best views of this city of islands, set between the Baltic and Lake Malaren. For a vantage point at the cocktail hour, head for Erik’s Gondolen (www.eriks.se).
See the 17th-century warship Vasa at the museum of the same name. Discovered in the harbour in the 1950s, you’ll be amazed at how well preserved it is and wowed by its decorative sculptures (www.vasamuseet.se).
Join the in-crowd in SoFo. Stockholm’s hippest neighbourhood – south of Folkungagatan – is where the capital’s latest generation of creative spirits buy and imbibe at its trendy boutiques, cafes and nightclubs (www.sofo.se).