Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale - Jourdain makes history

9:47 AM Sun 14 Nov 2010 GMT

'Jourdain makes history
- Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale' Route du Rhum

Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale. The familiar megawatt smile lit up the darkness on a still Caribbean night as Roland Jourdain and his Veolia Environnement finally ghosted to a halt in Pointe-? -Pitre, Guadeloupe as the charismatic skipper wrote himself further into the history of the Route du Rhum as the first sailor to win the monoholl division twice in consecutive editions. Over an ocean racing career already spanning 25 years Jourdain has felt the depths of disappointment - having to abandon in two successive Vend?e Globe races and the last Barcelona World Race - but the Finist?rian skipper who ...

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