“Compressed by emotion”, 40 skippers in the tenth Vendée Globe set off on Sunday on a new solo voyage around the world, cheered on by hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Les Sables-d’Olonne to say goodbye. Report by Cédric Ferreira, Natalia Ruiz Giraldo and Liza Kaminov.
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