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2020 CONTENDERS

ALEX THOMSON (46), HUGO BOSS (2019)

Can he win it? Second in the last edition, third in the one before that, Britain’s best hope of a Vendée victory for many moons rests on the flamboyant Thomson and his newest Hugo Boss

This Vendée Globe campaign, his fifth, has been a little different – no elaborate stunts, for starters. The focus was laser direct: to create a non-compromise IMOCA design that would give Thomson his best chance yet of winning. was launched intentionally later than , the aim to be last in the design cycle, and to be radical. It was a

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