The Vendée Globe may well have the world as its playground, it remains a very Franco-French event, at the pinnacle of a discipline, solo offshore racing, itself still largely flying the “blue-white-red” flag. .
Despite the presence of a dozen foreign sailors (out of 33) on the starting line at Les Sables-d'Olonne and a flow of news to Italy, Japan or Finland, the community managers and other communications officers of the around the world may have been feverishly monitoring Greta Thunberg's social media accounts last night.
A simple message for his "darling", Boris Herrmann, from the young climate passionate with nearly 20 million followers, and the notoriety of "Everest of the seas" could know a welcome boost to the international.
Best known until then for having taken the Swedish activist across the Atlantic on his boat, Herrmann emerged from the shadows unexpectedly and with talent.
On point
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