On the path that runs along one of the pontoons of Saint-Malo, the mark of Florence Arthaud is indelible.
Like all the winners of the Route du rhum, the race that since 1978 has linked the city of Corsairs to Pointe-à-Pitre, the navigator left the imprint of her hands in the concrete, not far from those of Mike Birch and Laurent Bourgnon, sumptuous sailors now deceased.
Seven years after her tragic death in a helicopter crash in Argentina with boxer Alexis Vastine and swimmer Camille Muffat, the memory of the one who won the event in 1990 remains.
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