Vendée Globe Challenge, medalists at Elysée

Vendée Globe Challenge, medalists at Elysée

President Jacques Chirac decorated three of the navigators to have distinguished themselves in the Vendée Globe Challenge 1996/1997, and declared "The Vendée Globe Challenge is not nothing...". The winner, Christophe AUGUIN explains that "a legion of honor is not denied..."; for his act of bravery (rescue of Rafaël Dinelli), Pete Goss "came for the whole team, it was not a rescue in solitary..."and the first woman to close the Vendée Globe Challenge, Catherine Chabaud. Archives: Arrival of Christophe Auguin at Les Sables d'Olonnes December 1996, Pete Goss brought Raphael Dinelli back to Tasmania: both browsers are hugging. Arrival at the Sands of Catherine Chabaud on 23/03/97

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File : Vendée Globe

Publication date : 19 June 1997