Organised by the Vendée Globe team and starting from Les Sables d'Olonne, the Vendée Arctique 2026 will be the first solo ...

Any ocean-racing sailor knows that the pinnacle of solo ocean-racing (and in my view the pinnacle of ALL ocean racing) is the Vendee Globe: solo, non-stop, around the world. It is arguably the most ...

Discover the unveiled rules for the 2028 Vendée Globe, as skippers prepare to face the ultimate solo sailing challenge from ...

Friday marked double digits in the countdown to the Vendee globe – less than 100 days to go. Fourteen weeks and forty-eight hours, a mere drop in the ocean in relation to the four years between each ...

LES SABLES D'OLONNE, France (Reuters) - British sailor Alex Thomson, aboard Hugo Boss, took second place in the solo round-the-world Vendee Globe race on Friday. France's Armel Le Cleac'h, aboard ...

(Reuters) - Charlie Dalin became the first to cross the finish line of the Vendee Globe round-the-world sailing race on Wednesday but he is not yet guaranteed a victory. The Frenchman aboard 'Apivia' ...

The toughest sporting event in the world is extreme, technical, challenging, harrowing and sometimes deadly. This is an event where—for months—competitors may sleep only two hours a day while ...

Editor’s Note: Shirley Robertson is a two-time Olympic sailing champion and host of CNN’s Mainsail. She reflects on the Vendee Globe, a grueling sailing race that was won Thursday by Frenchman Armel ...

The Vendée Globe sailing race ended last night just as it started 80 days earlier—with high drama on the high seas. The solo, round-the-world race, considered the “Everest of sailing,” was hard fought ...

Participants in a world sailing race are due to return to France on Wednesday. More people have been to outer space than have completed the Vendee Globe -– a solo competition. The winner of what's ...