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Volvo Ocean Race

Alicante, Spain: Team Delta Lloyd (Ger O’Rourke IRL) has arrived safely in Alicante with a day and a half in hand before the official opening of the Race Village tomorrow night, 19 September. The team, which used the six-day crossing from Cork as its 2,000-mile qualifier, is the last team to reach the start port and joins the other seven boats completing the fleet of eight.

The team still has plenty of preparation yet to do but skipper Ireland’s Ger O’Rourke is up-beat yet realistic about the team’s performance in the early stages of the event.

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Volvo Ocean Race
* Both Ericsson boats have endured a bruising encounter with the North Sea during their qualifying run.

Ericsson 3 and Ericsson 4 ran into 40 knots within 24 hours of a relatively gentle departure from Sweden on their round trip to the team training base in Lanzarote.

Anders Lewander, skipper of Ericsson 3, reported that they had engaged in some close racing with their sister ship after leaving Nynashamn and made their way through the narrow channel between Denmark and Sweden.

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