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• Plastic pollution

  The “Race for Water Odyssey” will begin in Bordeaux (France) on March 15

  
  Initiated by the Race for Water Foundation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, the “Race for Water Odyssey” (R4WO) will begin in Bordeaux (France) on March 15, 2015. The objective of this unique expedition is to conduct the first global assessment of plastic Plastic #DéchetsPlastiques pollution in oceans by visiting island beaches (...)
  Redaction SSS [Source RP] 29 January 2015
• Route de l’Amitié

  Francis Joyon has set off Bordeaux for a new record

  
  A bord du maxi trimaran IDEC, le navigateur français Francis Joyon a coupé aujourd’hui mardi 8 avril 2014 à 14 heures, 33 minutes TU (16 heures, 33 minutes HF) la ligne de départ du parcours de la Route de l’Amitié, The French sailor, Francis Joyon crossed the starting line of the Friendship Route in the Gironde Estuary aboard the (...)
  Redaction SSS [Source RP] 8 April 2014
• Solitaire du Figaro

  Solo skippers set sails from Pauillac for the leg 1 of the Solitaire 2013

  
  Under blue skies thousands of people packed the river banks and dozens of spectators boats saluted the 41 skippers leaving for the first stage of one month and 1,938 miles of racing. Paul Meilhat (Skipper Macif 2011) was in the early lead, but the course to Portugal is still long and will be full of (...)
  Information Solitaire du Figaro 2 June 2013
• ASP Europe

  Pauline Ado claims ASP Euro Junior Women’s title in Lacanau

  
  Pauline Ado (Hendaye, FRA), 19, has won an unprecedented third ASP Grade-2 Oakley Girls Pro Junior today in Lacanau, France, besting fellow finalists Alizee Arnaud (Hossegor, FRA), Justine Dupont (Lacanau, FRA) and Canelle Bulard (St Leu, REU). Destroying the tricky but clean two-foot waves (0.5 meter) on offer, Ado was unstoppable and claims (...)
  Redaction SSS [Source RP] 17 August 2010