Barcelona World Race - Temporary skipper for Hugo Boss

8:49 PM Thu 30 Dec 2010 GMT

Barcelona World Race participating skippers today agreed by an overwhelming majority to support the request of the Hugo Boss Sailing Team. The team will announce today the name of the temporary substitute skipper who will partner Andy Meiklejohn on board Hugo Boss from the start. This morning the regatta direction of the Barcelona World RACE has received and has passed directly to the jury the request of Hugo Boss Sailing Team for a temporary substitution of its skipper Alex Thomson who had a surgical intervention yesterday to remove his appendix. This substitution would allow the boat Hugo Boss to start ...

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by Barcelona World Race