Philippe Jeantot: "There is a race of people on earth who like to push their limits"

Philippe Jeantot: "There is a race of people on earth who like to push their limits"

While new tragedies have taken place in the Vendée Globe with the sinking of Frenchman Thierry Dubois (29) and British sailor Tony Bullimore (57), 3,000 kilometres south of the Australian coast and we have no news of the latter, Elise LUCET questions Philippe JEANTOT, race director of the Vendée Globe, live from the race’s HQ. She asks him to respond to those who accuse him of playing with the lives of the skippers. He believes he did not force anyone to start the race. There is a race of people on earth who like to live exciting things, take risks, push their limits"... " Fortunately, there are adventurers of this type to make people who do not have the courage to leave their little habits dream". He thinks this race is not dangerous, but very difficult... According to him, the current route is less dangerous than during the first edition...

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File : Shipwrecks of the Vendée Globe

Publication date : 6 January 1997