The 38-year-old is only the third Briton to achieve a podium finish in the non-stop three-month round-the-world race.
But the second Barcelona World Race, which is currently underway, is as much a battle of the mind as it is against the elements.
The 40ft (12m) piece of wreckage was salvaged from the Team Philips super-yacht which was hit by a freak mid-Atlantic storm during a round-the-world race.
For someone who had never gone faster than 8 knots on a sailboat, watching him and his crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round-the-World Race blaze through the Southern Ocean on the 90-foot Steinlager II was nothing short of incredible.
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The 39-year-old from England, who has suffered nearly 20 lung collapses due to a condition known as Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), is part of a multinational crew taking part in the bi-annual Clipper Round the World Yacht Race -- the only sailing race in the world where crews are made up by ordinary people, many with little or no sailing experience.
He was making little impression behind the pace of the polesitter until the incidents that changed the course of the race and possibly the world championship race.
Mr Goodchild, 22, is taking part in the race as part of his build-up to the next Vendee Globe solo round the world yacht race in 2016.
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London will be the start and finish line for the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
Shiffrin became the second youngest American to win a World Cup race, after Judy Nagel.
They move means Team Coast will be now allowed to start Saturday's Milan-San Remo World Cup race.
The endurance competition, which kicked off December 31, is the world's only "double-handed, " non-stop, around-the-world yacht race.
But the appeal was ruled inadmissible, leaving him just one point clear in the Formula One world title race.
She won her first World Cup race in Sweden in December and followed it up with victories in Croatia and Austria last month.
Meanwhile, Veronika Zuzulova had a comparatively more comfortable victory in the women's slalom in Semmering, Austria, as she won her first World Cup race.
The 25-year-old Vos, runner-up for the past five years in the world road race championships, finally went one better as she had too much strength for Armitstead.
The Italian team, who celebrated their 800th F1 world championship race in Istanbul, have dropped from second to third in the constructors' standings after McLaren gained maximum points from Turkey.
The New Zealand skipper Grant Dalton has sailed the Monaco-based boat Merit Cup into Auckland taking the winning gun in the fourth leg of the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.
Briton Knox-Johnston, who also founded the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, added that many people had thought his own bid to circumnavigate the globe was impossible at the time.
As the book writer, Gordy comes across almost divine, a true visionary who literally changed the world and race relations but was eventually abandoned by the artists he made stars when they sought to cash in.
Moelgg had never won a World Cup race until he claimed victory in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, a week before the season's finale in Bormio, although the 25-year-old had been consistent, claiming five podium places this season.
Wiggins, a four-time Olympic gold medallist and Tour de France winner, and Cavendish, the reigning world road race champion and BBC Sports Personality of the Year, had a magnetic appeal as thousands of spectators turned out at Ipswich Waterfront.
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Qualification for the Olympic triathlon relies on a system of points, examples being 1, 000 for winning a World Championship series grand final, 800 for winning one of the other six series events leading up to it, and 500 for winning a Triathlon World Cup race.
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You can push them as hard as you want, outside of a World Cup gs race.
In the world's race to specialize, we forgot that actually all knowledge is connected.
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On Mar. 29, 35, 000 people, many from overseas, attended the Dubai World Cup horse race.
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For NASCAR and the professional racing world, the race to true victory in diversity still has 499 more miles to go.
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Rally Australia is the 10th round of the 14-race world championship.
"There are two big races to qualify for the Olympics - the World Championship series race in London and the grand final in Beijing, " he explains.
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