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Volvo Ocean Race at Kochi
by
Juhan Samuel
Kochi:
Thousands
of people attended the inaugural function of Volvo Ocean
Race here on Wednesday evening and welcomed the participating
teams of the race. Volvo Ocean Race is the most prestigious
and spectacular round the world marathon ocean yacht racing
competition. It is seen as the ultimate in extreme adventure
sporting. It was a delightful moment for the Kochities
and foreign tourists as they witnessed an unheard of event
of this magnitude coming for the first time to India.
Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi
inaugurated the Volvo Ocean Race Kochi stopover celebrations
at the newly build race village in Willingdon island.
Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Kerala Home and Tourism minister
while presiding over the function announced that the State
tourism department had plans to construct a 'Marina' with
state of the art facilities for anchoring 50 foreign yachts
on the backwaters of Kochi at Bolgatty Island. With the
arrival of the last yacht Team from Russia, all the eight
participating yachts in the race have arrived in Kochi.
Meanwhile, Ericsson 4 maintained the first position in
completing the second leg with 26 points followed by Telefonica
Blue, Puma, Ericsson, Green Dragon, Delta Lloyd, Telefonica
Black and Team Russia. The Volvo Ocean Race commenced
its round-the-world marathon sailing in October 2008 and
in due course it will cover more than 39,000 nautical
miles, visiting 11 ports across the world. Starting from
Alicante in Spain, it wills have stopover at Cape Town,
Cochin, Qingdao, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Galway, Goteborg
and Stockholm, before reaching the finishing line at St.Petersburg.
The race's next destination is scheduled to be Singapore.
All the teams will be leaving Kochi on December 13.
-Dec
4, 2008
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