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December 16, 2024
Dec 16 - The shattered mast of British sailor PipHare has ended his bid to complete a second Vendee Globe, a 24,000-mile race. The 50-year old woman dismasted the 60ft boat Medallia, about 800 nautical miles south-west of Australia. This ended a solo trip that began on November 10.
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December 10, 2024
Brazilian and Italian authorities announced that they had launched two joint operations Tuesday to dismantle a transnational conspiracy to transport cocaine using cargo ships or planes from South America to Europe. In Brazil, 18 arrest warrants…
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November 21, 2024
SailGP's fifth season will begin in Dubai at the weekend, with Rolex as the title sponsor. This partnership has been in place since the creation of the league. Rolex has been involved with sailing for almost 70 years and will become the title…
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November 19, 2024
The agricultural firm Louis Dreyfus announced on Tuesday the construction of a new transshipment sugar terminal in Brazil's Sao Paulo State, which is expected to be finished by mid-2025. Executives from the company claim that the new terminal…
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November 13, 2024
The European wheat price fell on Wednesday as a result of the continued competition between Russia and Ukraine. Benchmark December milling grain on Paris' Euronext dropped by 1.5% at 1613 GMT to 211.00 Euros, also being dragged lower by a fall in Chicago wheat futures.
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October 23, 2024
The global potash supply has returned to the levels before the invasion of Ukraine. Russia and Belarus have increased shipments to Asia, South America and Europe to avoid Western sanctions, and to pressure producers to reduce output to avoid an oversupply.
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October 8, 2024
Trade sources reported that two Indian state refiners bought 2,000,000 barrels of Venezuelan oil from Vitol, for delivery in November. This is despite the fact that Venezuelan crude shipments continue to increase to what was previously Venezuela's second-largest oil market.
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September 26, 2024
SailGP, the adrenaline-fuelled sailing spectacle, is headed to new waters in August 2025. The elite sailing championship will make its highly anticipated German debut on the island Ruegen. Sassnitz along the coast of the island will host two days high-octane races.
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August 9, 2024
Martin Fuksa, who is in France for his third Olympics, came to France with the goal of winning the Olympic gold medal. After two previous fifth-place finishes, he won it on Friday. The Czech won the 500m men's single canoe race with an Olympic record of 3:43.16.
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August 8, 2024
Noah Lyles will be looking to become first American to win Olympic sprint double in 40 years at the Games. More than 30 medals will be awarded throughout the day in athletics as well as sailing, boxing taekwondo wrestling and track cycling.
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August 8, 2024
Noah Lyles will be looking to make history on Thursday by becoming the first American to win the Olympic Sprint Double in 40 years. Throughout the day there will be more than 30 medals available, in sports such as athletics, boxing taekwondo wrestling, and sailing.
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August 8, 2024
Noah Lyles will be looking to make history on Thursday by becoming the first American to win the Olympic Sprint Double in 40 years. After water quality tests showed that the Seine met standards, the women's marathon 10km swimming race went on as scheduled.
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August 8, 2024
On Thursday, the United States will attempt to be the first American to win both the Olympic sprint and the Olympic marathon double in over 40 years. The women's marathon 10km swimming race started early in the morning after the water quality tests on the Seine met the thresholds.
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August 7, 2024
What is the first rule to winning an Olympic sailing medal for men? It is considered unlucky to shave while competing. All three men, Pavlos Kotides from Cyprus, Stefano Peschiera of Peru, and Matt Wearn from Australia, wore beards when they hung their gold…
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August 6, 2024
Matt Wearn of Australia and Pavlos Kontides from Cyprus are set to compete in a'match-race' on Wednesday for Olympic gold for men's Dinghy after an event was postponed due to wind instability. Wearn (28), who has the lowest score of the entire series…
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August 7, 2024
On Wednesday, 23 medals will be awarded in the Olympic games, including athletics, swimming, speed-climbing, skating, boxing and artistic swimming. Dutchman Harrie lavreysen broke the world record for men's flying 200 metre laps as he led the qualifying timesheets in sprint track cycling.
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August 7, 2024
On Wednesday, 23 gold medals will be awarded at the Olympics, with the majority of them in the athletics, but also the sailing, artistic Swimming, Boxing, Skateboarding, Speed Climbing and other sports. Anne-Marie Rindom of Denmark won silver…
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August 7, 2024
On Wednesday 23 gold medals will be awarded at the Olympics, with the majority of these going to athletes, but also sailing, artistic swim, boxing and skateboarding, as well as speed climbing and other sports. Tobi Amusan, the Nigerian world…
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August 6, 2024
The finals of three Olympic sailing races will be tense due to the Mediterranean wind. Both the women's and men's medal race in the dinghy class have been pushed to Wednesday when the officials also hope to finish the mixed multihulls and dinghies. On Tuesday some racing was possible.
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August 6, 2024
The final Olympic week is well underway and the United States now ranks first in the medals table. They will be hoping to increase their lead by winning in the athletics events later Tuesday. Kauli Vaast, a local from Tahiti won the gold medal…
