Rolex Sydney Hobart - Oats sweats then celebrates

7:52 AM Wed 29 Dec 2010 GMT

'Line Honours Presentation L2R-Mark Richards, skipper of Wild Oats XI, Adrienne Cahalan, co-navigator of Wild Oats, and Patrick Boutellier, Rolex Australia' &copy Rolex/Carlo Borlenghi Click Here to view large photo

Rolex Sydney Hobart - 'We?re back and we?re just very happy to be here,' said Wild Oats XI skipper Mark Richards after the news that a race committee protest had been dismissed and that the 30.48 metre supermaxi owned by Bob Oatley could be officially declared line honours winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Twenty hours had passed since she crossed the finish line at 8.37pm on Tuesday to an understandably subdued reception on the Hobart waterfront. This afternoon, when she could be declared the line honours winner and receive the JH Illingworth Trophy and a Rolex Yacht-Master ...

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