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Entrega de premio Vendée Globe

The 2008-2009 Vendée Globe prize-giving ceremony will be taking place on Saturday 23rd May on the main beach (“La Grande Plage”) in Les Sables d’Olonne. It will offer another opportunity to celebrate the thirty sailors, who tackled the Everest of the Seas last winter.
The event access is free, and will be a great popular occasion just like the Vendée Globe itself. If we look back at what happened last time, we can expect between 50,000 and 100,000 people to attend the event.

The ceremony, which is bound to be an emotional event, will begin at 10 p.m (local time, 9p.m GMT) by which time it will be dark. Alongside the presentation of the thirty participants and the handing over of the Vendée Globe trophies, there will also be a firework, a light show projected on to giant screens and a wrap up film of the sixth edition of the Vendée Globe.

A large firework display will bring the ceremony to an end. After the last ovation for the skippers, who lined up for this edition, it will be time to XXX at the Vendée Globe 2012-2013, the start date of which will be announced during the ceremony by Philippe de Villiers, President of the Vendée Globe.


EDITORIAL MATERIAL (audio, video, photo) AVAILABLE FREE OF RIGHTS
IN THE VENDEE GLOBE ONLINE PRESS CENTER
To access the online press center and/or register
http://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/press.html