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A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay

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Youngest entrant Louis Kerdelhué retires from the Golden Globe Race due to his ‘physical condition’

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Louis Kerdelhué (France) sails into the Marina Rubicón film drop at 11:00 UTC on the 18th September 2026.

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Youngest entrant Louis Kerdelhué retires from the Golden Globe Race due to his ‘physical condition’

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