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| Next stage of Vendée Globe set to get underway |
| (12-01-2012/The Independent) - Cutting corners can often come at a price and the cost for the 13 remaining Vendée Globe singlehanders could be a shake-up at the top as the leaders start the next phase and the fourth week. |
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| Ben Ainslie looks to America's Cup |
| (11-28-2012/The Independent) - Ben Ainslie may have called time on his Olympic career yesterday but he is already looking forward to the next chapter, which he hopes will bring success in the America's Cup. |
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| Ainslie looks to America's Cup |
| (11-28-2012/The Independent) - Ben Ainslie may have called time on his Olympic career yesterday but he is already looking forward to the next chapter, which he hopes will bring success in the America's Cup. |
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| Spying accusations stoke America's Cup rivalries |
| (11-26-2012/The Independent) - Spying is set to spark new battle lines in the America's Cup as tempers fray on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. At odds are the €90m Italian team Luna Rossa, backed by the Prada luxury goods house, and the San Francisco-based, Lord knows how many millions Oracle team, holders of the cup and backed by computer software billionaire Larry Ellison. |
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| Vendée Globe: Golding among seven skippers given time penalties |
| (11-22-2012/The Independent) - Britain's Mike Golding is among seven Vendée Globe skippers given time penalties for sailing into the traffic separation lane off Finisterre, but his penalty is just 30 minutes. |
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| Vendée Globe turns demolition derby as fifth starter retires |
| (11-18-2012/The Independent) - The demolition derby aspect of the Vendée Globe round the world race continued to dominate coverage on Sunday as the fifth of the 20 starters limped off the racecourse and a sixth sought to fix a problem which could also force him to retire. |
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| Vendée Globe: Almost half of all starters accused of breaking rules by the race committee |
| (11-16-2012/The Independent) - A slew of penalty flags is waving around the Vendée Globe fleet of singlehanders racing non-stop round the world. |
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| Samantha Davies dismasted and forced out of Vendée Globe round the world race |
| (11-16-2012/The Independent) - Samantha Davies was dismasted 130 miles north-west of Madeira on the sixth day of the Vendée Globe singlehanded non-stop round the world race making her the third person to be forced out. |
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| De Pavant retires from Vendée Globe after colliding with trawler |
| (11-12-2012/The Independent) - Kito de Pavant became the second to retire from the Vendée Globe singlehanded non-stop round the world race in the opening 48 hours after colliding with a fishing trawler 45 miles off the coast of Portugal. It was the second time he has been forced to withdraw from a race notorious for the rate of attrition. |
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| Vendée favourite forced out after 60 miles |
| (11-12-2012/The Independent) - Some 20 boats sailed out from the French port of Les Sables d'Olonne on Saturday for the Vendée Globe race, a gruelling three-month circumnavigation of the globe, with Groupe Bel, skippered by France's Kito de Pavant. But the number of racers was reduced by one after less than six hours, when key contender Safran, skippered by Marc Guillemot, was forced to pull out with a broken keel. |
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