The Ocean Race is the toughest test of a team in sport – and sailing’s greatest round-the-world challenge. Since 1973, winning the Race has been an obsession for the world’s best sailors – Olympic champions, record breakers and pioneers. With teams racing through the most extreme spots on the planet – closer to the astronauts in the Space Station than anyone else on land – and calling at iconic cities on 6 continents, The Ocean Race is a truly global sporting competition with adventure and sustainability at its heart, and sailors testing the limits of human ambition and performance.
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