Vendée Globe 2024: “Those uninitiated to sailing can have fun”… The success of the virtual world tour
The release on screens this Wednesday of “La Vallée des Fous”, where Jean-Paul Rouve engages in the game from his garden, alone on a boat, in racing conditions (Jean Le Cam and his wife, Anne, collaborated on the scenario), should bring a new spotlight. “The Vendée Globe represents adventure, wide open spaces, surpassing oneself and […]
Vendée Globe 2024: “For months, I woke up at night”… Charlie Dalin, in search of lost time
He was the first to enter the pontoon on Sunday when the sun had not yet risen. The ovation was immense, while at the foot of his boat, his wife, Perrine, and their little Oscar, 6 and a half years old, were waiting for him, life jacket on his back. As he set off for […]
LIVE – Vendée Globe: the start of the 10th edition has been given
At 1:02 p.m. this Sunday, the 40 sailors set off from Les Sables d’Olonne for a world tour. Les Sables d’Olonne Deliverance came with a cannon shot at precisely 1:02 p.m. The 40 sailors of the Vendée Globe 2024-2025, who had been waiting since mid-morning in front of Les Sables d’Olonne after a triumphant exit […]
“On the last Vendée Globe, I had to take three showers”: in the daily life of skipper Éric Bellion
More than 80 days alone at sea, having to deal with the vagaries of the weather, the incessant noise of a boat on which technical problems multiply… Éric Bellion (Stand as one), who is starting his second Vendée Globe, talks about what his journey will be like. By Sandrine Lefèvre, special correspondent to Sables-d’Olonne (Vendée) […]
How much will the winner of the 2024-2025 edition receive?
40 skippers will set off this Sunday for the world tour with the hope of winning a small prize by crossing the finish line as the winner. Crossing the finish line of the Vendée Globe as a winner will open the doors to the pantheon of ocean racing, but the feat does not make the […]
Vendée Globe: up to 700,000 spectators expected, 11 nationalities competing… 2024, the edition of all records
The moment promises to be sumptuous. If the start of the 10th Vendée Globe, a solo round-the-world trip without assistance and without stopover, will be given at 1:02 p.m. this Sunday, the 40 sailors entered will sail up the Sables-d’Olonne channel at 8 a.m. The city is preparing to receive between 500,000 and 700,000 spectators. […]
Vendée Globe 2024: at what time and on which TV channel to watch the start from Les Sables-d’Olonne this Sunday?
Organized every four years, like the Football World Cup or the Olympic Games, the Vendée Globe, a solo round-the-world race, without stopovers or assistance, will depart from Les Sables-d’Olonne on Sunday November 10, at 1:02 p.m. This is the most difficult offshore racing event. It is nicknamed “the Everest of the Seas”, because it requires […]
“A part of us feels like we’re abandoning her”: Clarisse and Tanguy, a Vendée Globe far from their daughter
The good humor of Léna, “Tata Tina”, is contagious. It is she – “Mathilda’s 3rd parent, 3rd landmark”, summarizes Tanguy, her big brother – who will watch over the little one. In the house rented until departure, not far from the Sables-d’Olonne embankments, we pay attention to details. The last hugs will be done far […]
Vendée Globe 2024: Doldrums, Cape Horn, roaring 40th… the journey that awaits the skippers
A little over two months of waiting before knowing the winner of the 2024 edition of the Vendée Globe. Will the latter do better than Yannick Bestaven‘s around the world in 80 days four years ago? It will depend on his ability to escape from all the traps that will present themselves to the skippers. […]
Vendée Globe 2024: only one former winner, 15 beginners, 6 women… the list of 40 skippers at the start
A record number, even before the first legs of this Vendée Globe: 40. There will be forty skippers on the starting line in Les Sables-d’Olonne this Sunday noon, hoping to complete their solo round the world tour, without stopover or assistance and by the three reference capes (Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn), at the end […]