Sailing: Ukrainians miss the boat
The Ukrainian entries, Odessa and Hetman Sahaidachny, failed to start the fifth leg of the Whitbread round-the-world race in Punta del Este, Uruguay, blaming late arrival of crew and equipment, writes Stuart Alexander. Grant Dalton's New Zealand Endeavour led the remaining dozen off on the 5,500-mile leg to Florida.
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