It is tough enough for any sailor just to complete the non-stop round-the-world Vendee Globe, let alone win it but winning it while battling cancer, as French skipper Charlie Dalin did in January, is ...

Artists perform at the Puy du Fou theme park in Les Epesses, Vendee, western France, on June 11, 2020. The Puy Du Fou theme park reopened for its first visitors on Thursday after being closed for ...

PARIS, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Charlie Dalin was cruising towards a record victory in the Vendee Globe challenge on Monday, with a finish expected in the early hours of Tuesday at Les Sables-d'Olonne. At ...

Nearly 19 days ago, 29 sailors set out to compete in something so mad, so daring, and so epic that only a handful of sailors have ever mustered the courage to attempt it – sail solo around the world ...

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend a small community event in Les Sables-d’Olonne, a resort town on France’s West Coast that hosts the start and finish of the Vendee Globe. There, Luc Van ...

LES SABLES-D'OLONNE, France - France's Charlie Dalin completed the Vendee Globe around-the-world sailing race in record time on Tuesday when he crossed the finish line in under 65 days but it was a ...

One of yachting’s most avidly followed events, the punishing Vendee Globe solo round the world race, plans to proceed with its November 8 embarkation date, organisers said on Tuesday. Staged every ...

Miranda Merron, Sam Davies, Alex Thomson and Pip Hare (left to right) are representing Great Britain in the 2020-21 race This Sunday the ninth edition of the Vendee Globe, one of the longest and most ...

Artists perform at the Puy du Fou theme park in Les Epesses, Vendee, western France, on June 11, 2020. The Puy Du Fou theme park reopened for its first visitors on Thursday after being closed for ...