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#vor – Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) have dominated the Volvo Ocean Race ever since they entered their home waters in Sanya last month, and today marked no change despite four swaps in their crew line-up for Leg 4 to…

#vor – Volvo Ocean Race's six-strong fleet heads out towards Auckland from Sanya for Leg 4 on Sunday with some big calls to make in the latest instalment of a marathon offshore contest. Charles Caudrelier's (FRA) Dongfeng Race Team have…

#slackline – In his most creative stunt yet, Mich Kemeter does a slackline above the sea – using two Volvo Ocean Race yachts!  When you're 27 meters up in the air, the wind whistling past your ears and gravity pulling…

#VOR - As Dongfeng Race team celebrate their home-port victory in the third leg of the Volvo Ocean Race from Abu Dhabi to Sanya, the grounded Team Vestas Wind are half a world away in the foothills of the Italian…

#vor – It was an unbelievable end to a magnificent Volvo Ocean Race leg for Dongfeng Race Team. After leading the fleet virtually all the way from Abu Dhabi to Sanya in China, over more than 5,000 miles of intense…

#vor – A thrilling finish looks to be in store for Leg 3 of the Volvo Ocean Race after the chasing pack made big inroads into Dongfeng Race Team's once huge lead early on Sunday with just over 24 hours…

#VOR - Some 160 nautical miles separate the first and last place boats in the Volvo Ocean Race as the fleet plies the South China Sea towards their destination of Sanya. But it's not over till it's over, as race…

#teamvestas – Team Vestas Wind today announced that navigator Wouter Verbraak is no longer a member of the crew for the Volvo Ocean Race. The Dutchman was on board when the team was run aground on November 29 during Leg…

#VOR - Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing's former Volvo Ocean Race yacht has been destroyed by a fire at its shipyard in France. As Italian nautical news site Solovela reports, firefighters battled through incredible heat and toxic fumes last Friday night…

#VOR - The Volvo Ocean Race fleet prepares for a day of drifting in light winds as the they enter the second 24 hours of the third leg from Abu Dhabi to Sanya. Now past the Musandam Peninsula and Strait…

#VOR - The grounded Team Vestas Wind have declared their intention to rejoin the Volvo Ocean Race at some point before the final leg out of Lisbon this summer. Team chief executive Morten Abaek and skipper Chris Nicholson made the…

#VOR - Team Alvimedica have won a claim for redress over time lost while diverting to assist the stricken Team Vestas Wind during the second leg of the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race, according to the official race website. As previously…

#VOR - Though currently holding last place in the seven-boat fleet competing in the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race, the all-women Team SCA remains focused the task at hand - not only completing the 38,000-plus-mile round-the-world challenge, but charting a new…

#vor – 'This is an extreme sport. Extreme things happen', says Team Vestas Wind Navigator Wouter Verbraak in his first interview since November's Volvo Ocean Race shipwreck in the Indian Ocean. The images and subtitles are courtesy of NOS Sport.

#VOR - Team Vestas Wind have successfully lifted their VOR 65 from the Indian Ocean reef where it grounded three weeks ago during the second leg of the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race. The vessel is badly damaged, but still in…

#VOR - One of the title sponsors of the Volvo Ocean Race has reaffirmed its commitment to the gruelling round-the-world yachting challenge. As Scuttlebutt Sailing News reports, the Chinese-owned Volvo Cars - which is joint owner of the event with…