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English skipper Alex Thomson sails onboard his class Imoca monohull "Hugo Boss" moments after taking the start of the Vendee Globe around-the-world solo sailing race off the coast of Les Sables-d'Olonne, western France, on November 6, 2016. / AFP / LOIC VENANCE        (Photo credit should read LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images)

Sailor smashes Vendee Globe records

The grueling Vendee Globe is not even a third of the way finished, but British sailor Alex Thomson has already set two records in the solo round-the-world race.
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