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Michel Desjoyeaux, now up to third, is quickest of the leading trio. He alluded briefly to one or two technical problems in this morning’s abbreviated radio broadcast, but Foncia shows very competitive speeds this afternoon and early evening and of course it is always not easy to interpret what is wordplay smokescreen and what is actual fire with some of the 2001 victor’s reports.

“ I don't tell you everything. Everytime it's calm, I have work to do, usually some serious stuff .  I was just doing a repair job when you contacted me.  I was taking advantage of 32 hours or so of calmer weather to deal with a problem that's been with me for a few days now...” he said today.

After describing himself as riding up to the pack with his gun over his shoulder, he is certainly within range at 109.3 miles off the lead, but given the pace and that the race is still not yet half over, that deficit is nothing in the greater scheme of things.

He has lost ten miles to Dick since early this morning.

Jean-Pierre Dick’s lead is 78.6 miles this evening, with speeds basically ascending down the top 10, suggesting that the likes of Riou and Le Cléach 300 miles behind the leaders are being pushed along on schedule by the front of the next depression. The duo are quickest making 18.5 and 18.6 knots.

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