Heineken Cape to Rio - Tussle for podium places



5:45 PM Thu 3 Feb 2011 GMT
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Heineken Cape to Rio latest update. The crew of City of Cape Town has gone into party mode after their surgical crossing of the South Atlantic, but the tussle for the other podium places in the Heineken Cape to Rio yacht race is far from over. After briefly falling off the pace Xtra-Link, skippered by Dale Kushner, has stormed back into contention after finding some stiff breeze and is presently in third position behind Mike Robinson?s Ciao Bella which was last reported to be sailing in light northerly winds. After Thursday?s twenty-four run Xtra-Link was only 180 nautical miles from ...


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by Jeanne van Rooyen





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