terça-feira, 22 de janeiro de 2013

Brazilian team enters 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race and wins stopover bid


Brazilian team enters 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race and wins stopover bid

The contours of the next Volvo Ocean Race route started to take shape today when Recife in Brazil was unveiled as the first stopover port in 2014-15.

Torben Grael - Volvo Ocean Race: Ericsson 4 awarded for first leg as teams prepare for Leg Two
First leg record: Ericsson 4 skipper Torben Grael lifts the Waterford Crystal trophy after his crew won Leg One of the Volvo Ocean Race Photo: GETTY IMAGES
In a break from tradition which normally has Cape Town welcoming the fleet at the end of the first leg from Europe, Recife, one of the host cities for the football World Cup next year, won the rights to host one of nine likely stopovers after a bidding contest involving 80 different ports from around the world.
The deal will also see them enter a team in the next Volvo Ocean Race, representing the state of Pernambuco which brings the total number of confirmed entrants so far to two, following the announcement of the all-women’s crew Team SCA last year.
Other teams and ports will be announced over the next few months with Alicante set to host the start and Abu Dhabi, Auckland and Lorient all likely to feature in the route and new ports such as Hong Kong, Newport in the US and Göthernburg in Sweden rumoured to have been successful in the bidding round.
"Coming to Recife at the end of Leg 1 means there will be a lot of attention on this great city and having a Brazilian team in the Race will be fantastic for fans across the country," said Volvo Ocean Race CEO Knut Frostad.
Brazil boasts a Volvo Ocean Race winner in Olympic legend Torben Grael who made his mark as skipper of Brasil 1 in 2005-06 by sacking his navigator Adrienne Cahalan, the last woman to compete in the Volvo Ocean race, at the end of the first leg.

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