Hyundai and Océane Automobiles: Vendée Globe Official Suppliers

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…

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…

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.

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,…

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…

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,…

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.

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…