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After seven stages in the rear, the wife boat Team SCA today won the eighth stage of the Volvo Ocean Race. The boat with the helm of the Dutch Carolyn Brouwer thereby providing a remarkable achievement. The last time an all-female team a stage in the prestigious sailing race around the world won in 1990.
Pink Boat Team SCA took early in the journey from Lisbon to Lorient the lead and was the then no more off. The stage of 647 miles (1041 kilometers), the eleven-strong team took 3 days, 13 hours, 11 minutes and 11 seconds. Number two, Team Vestas, arrived almost 50 minutes later.
Female Boot particularity
With that victory write the women of Team SCA history in a game that starts the domain of years of men. The last time there even one woman competed in the Volvo Ocean Race in 2005-2006. When was the Australian Adrienne Cahalan navigator aboard Brasil I.
A complete female team is quite a peculiarity in the regatta. The last time it occurred was in 2001-2002: Team Amer Sports of Finland. This participation turned out mainly a publicity stunt, because the team used the woman boat as a backup for the ‘first hunt. “
Men do not want women on board
That women still barely take part in the Volvo Ocean Race comes under our sports reporter Rob Schoof partly because men do not want women on board, he wrote last year. (€) The woman boat must now compete “with very otten as Bouwe Bekking, veteran of six Ocean Races”:
“He said recently that the female team the lead in the preparation The four men boats can use well. “I’m there just stronger,” says Brouwer. “So much the better if we can shake hands with him soon as we are finished for him.”
That the woman boat the short stage win at Lorient, comes as somewhat of a surprise. So far, Team SCA does not exceed one fifth place and the team is sixth out of seven in the overall standings. Prior to the eighth stage helmswomen Brouwer called that performance across the NIS disappointing:
“Perhaps I personally had high expectations. I had secretly hoped that one and a half years of preparation, the lack of experience that we have more women would compensate. We have done everything we could do. “
” Everything fell into place
everything was however almost perfectly in today’s stage, says helmsman Brouwer. She said this matter by news agency Reuters:
“It is still difficult for me to describe. I think that here everything has fallen into place. In this stage came the good side up. “
The eighth and last leg of the Volvo Ocean Race starts Tuesday and leads via Scheveningen to the Swedish city of Gothenburg. The final victory is already no longer at stake after the seventh stage is Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing to figure no longer by number two, the Dutch boat Team Brunel
Read also this weekend. NRC Handelsblad the special about the Volvo Ocean Race
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