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Volvo Ocean Race
Volvo Ocean Race
Bouwe Bekking's (NED) Dutch boat was leading Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) by a mere 12 nautical miles (nm) at 0940 UTC on Tuesday with Ian Walker's Azzam boat just 27nm further behind.
The trio has a huge lead of nearly 275nm over the fourth-placed boat, Team Alvimedica (Charlie Enright/USA), with MAPFRE (Iker Mart’nez/ESP), and Team SCA (Sam Davies/GBR), also seemingly out of the running for a podium spot.
Dongfeng Race Team will join Team Brunel and Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing on four points if they retain their current second place. However, the Dutch and Chinese boats would be ranked above them under the race's tie-breaker rules because each of them would have had a leg victory.
Team Vestas Wind is 'exploring the opportunity' of re-entering the Volvo Ocean Race with a new boat just over a week after their Volvo Ocean 65 ran into a reef in the Indian Ocean..