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The Amazing Race

AS YOU read this, the latest Vendée Globe race winner may have already been crowned. Or not. A record 33 competitors left Les Sables d’Olonne, France, on November 8 of last year to tackle a singularly grueling and dangerous contest: a 21,638-mile solo circumnavigation of the globe through some of the world’s most dangerous waters. It’s an unforgiving, months-long sprint with no help allowed; many boats break or even

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