The replacements planned for certain teams will therefore remain on the ground. We told you their story. Never in the history of the Vendée Globe has a replacement started at short notice.
While we are just over two hours from the start of the race, the forty skippers of the Vendée Globe have left their home pontoon in Sabes-d'Olonne to reach the ocean and, little by little, get closer, from the starting line. Everyone therefore passed through the channel, where hundreds of thousands of spectators had gathered, noisy and with quite a few banners.
There are days like this when we would like to drop everything and go on an adventure. Well, the day of the start of the Vendée Globe is one of those moments. This Sunday, at exactly 1:02 p.m., the forty skippers registered for the solo round-the-world trip, without stopover and without assistance, leave from Les Sables-d'Olonne, for a little less than three months of racing. There will be sport, great stories, struggles, suspense, beautiful images… In short, we will make you experience this edition as best as possible.
>> So, meet at 11 a.m. for this Grand Departure.
