He didn't get over it.
"Anne (his wife), you realize, they call me a sucker ..." The joke ("me, I took the nazes") answered the question of Jean Le Cam curious to know how the journalists chose the sailors to call before the Vendée Globe, and what was a joke (let us repeat), had more stunned than annoyed him three weeks before the start.
Fourth in his fifth Vendée Globe, the Breton narrowly escaped the fate of five other “nazes” who had the bad luck to speak to us before being forced to retire during the race (Joschke, Davies, Troussel, Simon, Amedeo ).
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He returned, marked in his flesh, in his head.
And once again crowned king of a world tour of which he does not need the throne to reign.
From the top of his short but magical formulas (often) pointing the finger at things that annoy, his malice, his common sense.
In fact of this authenticity which pleases in an ever more professional sail.
Le Cam, the dean, 61 years old, is sailing ahead of engineers, computer scientists (even if he has started), communicators.
That of Tabarly (who launched him on a crewed round-the-world trip), Poupon (with whom he battled on the Solitaire du Figaro before becoming like him a triple winner and earning his nickname King John) and Florence Arthaud (a shared double deckchair).
With the little fiancee of the Atlantic, he had a drink in this world before where the bars were open and the sailors less physically sharp and able to slip from a dance floor to a starting line without the journalists. (they too drunk with happiness) don't worry about their performance.
Monument in peril
Today, Jean Le Cam, an endearing, atypical character, constitutes a monument in peril, a masterpiece that one day we must admire in silence in the museum.
For now, he breathes, moves, lives like those young sailors who respect and admire him.
Without worrying about his age and what will be said after his sometimes harsh criticisms.
Admittedly, Anne told us that, as far as she is concerned, this would be her last (extremely invested) Vendée Globe preparation.
He spent months without taking any rest before this one, for lack of large financial means.
Couple investments paying off.
A start to the race in front of the new boats with his (almost) as old as him, a successful rescue which shook the whole of France and in the end a fourth place that he called "stupid" but that he should rename "sucks".
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