Vendee - St-Petersburg: Winner by just a few seconds

11:06 PM Mon 24 May 2010 GMT

'Crepes Whaou!' Jean-Christophe L'Espagnol

Vend?e - St-Petersburg race - 75 seconds, or in other words around 400 metres. It is even less time than it takes to change tack on these boats. When you are beaten, ending up so close to the winner, you obviously think back at a particular moment in the race, when you could have gained those extra 400 metres that changed everything for you at the finish. But when you win by such a margin, you cannot help feeling that it was ever so close. So this Monday has become the day of reckoning. Victory has been decided between the ...

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