IMOCA Open 60 - Vendée Globe 2024 - Les Sables d'Olonne - Race Village open

The Vendée Globe Race Village opened in Les Sables d'Olonne on Saturday in the rain but with numerous visitors already in attendance - numerous attractions await visitors every day, from a tour of an Open 60 to a ‘Degustation Culinaire’. ----- The event website also features portraits of the participants, including Antoine Cornic FRA, who had to abandon his first Vendée Globe campaign in 2004 due to a lack of funding, then ran a restaurant on the Ile du Ré for 20 years and is now realizing his dream. He is at the start with the oldest Open 60, his goal is to arrive! The report.