Ponton du Vendée Globe

The village, a unique immersion in the adventure of ocean racing

The Vendée Globe is getting ready to celebrate its 10th edition with the long-awaited opening of its Start Village, from Saturday 19 October to Sunday 10 November 2024. This 30,000 m² space offers a total immersion in the world of ocean racing, with a rich programme of events, activities and…

Jérémie Beyou et la gamme Charal Sport

On the skippers' plates

Since no detail is overlooked before setting off around the world, special attention is paid to the food supplies on board. Freeze-dried, appertized dishes, snacks, sweets... Between tastes and preparation techniques, nothing is left to chance to last for three months. Explanations with Jérémie…

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Village opening october 19 at 10 a.m

Discover the official water bottle

Maxime Sorel au "moulin à café"

Develop your physical qualities to optimize your performance

In order to improve their performance in a holistic way, Vendée Globe sailors work on various aspects such as technical mastery, tactics, nutrition, sleep, mental health but also physical preparation. In addition to serving their discipline by developing their physical qualities and optimizing…

Clarisse Crémer, skipper de L'Occitane en Provence, interviewée par les médias.
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Les deux IMOCA VULNERABLE

Pooling resources within teams: together it's everything!

Sharing part of the technical team, pooling the design office, the data to be analysed and certain areas of activity... What if sharing resources was a boon, a performance advantage? In any case, that's the choice made by Beyou Racing with Charal (Jérémie Beyou) and TeamWork-Team SNEF (Justine…

Manchot adélie sur la banquise

The Vendée Globe unveils its very first mascot: Adélie the penguin

The Vendée Globe, the famous solo sailing race around the world, is proud to present its very first mascot: Adélie, the penguin. Endemic to Antarctica, the South Pole continent that sailors circumnavigate on their round-the-world voyage, the Adélie penguin is directly threatened by global warming…

Violette Dorange et sa gourde Gobi

GOBI, a technical supplier committed to zero waste

In line with the environmental commitments it unveiled at its press conference at UNESCO last February, the Vendée Globe has approached Gobi to design its official water bottle, in order to eliminate the use of plastic bottles in the 2024 village.

Sodebo

Sodebo, VandB: partnering a boat and the Vendée Globe, how do they complement each other?

One has been a major partner of the Vendée Globe (Sodebo) for 20 years, the other a brand new official supplier (VandB). But these two companies from the Pays de la Loire region are contributing in their own way to the dynamism of the most iconic of round-the-world races. Alongside this support,…

Damien Seguin, JO de Londres

Damien Seguin: "feeding off the energy of the Olympics"

He is the most "Olympian" of the Vendée Globe skippers. The APICIL Group sailor has competed in four Olympics and won two gold medals. He will be part of the French Paralympic team's support team and will be attending events in Lille and Paris this week. But first, he looks back at the excitement…

Illustration départ du Vendée Globe

100 days to go

Objectively, time is quantified by units such as seconds, minutes, hours, days and years, and is rigorously managed by clocks and calendars. Today, only 100 days remain until the start of the 10th edition of the Vendée Globe! Subjectively - time can stretch or contract according to our activities,…

Musée de la Marine

"Solo around the world” exhibition at the musée de la Marine

From 16 October to 26 January, to mark the 10th edition of the Vendée Globe, the Musée National de la Marine in Paris-Trocadéro is devoting a major exhibition to the single-handed round-the-world race.

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scientific stations are open and active year-round in Antarctica.

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Paul Meilhat à bord de son IMOCA Biotherm

Paul Meilhat: ‘France can beat its record number of medals at the Olympic Sailing Games’

Sailing has a long history in the Olympic Games. Events were planned for the Athens Games in 1896, but were not held because of the weather. But four years later, the first competitions took place at the Olympic Games in Paris. That was 124 years ago, 89 years before the first Vendée Globe. Sailing…

Les équipes Sellsy

Sellsy as a committed and responsible technical supplier

Sellsy, a La Rochelle-based company offering a 100% French solution to simplify commercial and financial management for small and medium-sized companies and renowned for its commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR), has signed up as a technical supplier for the Vendée Globe 2024.