Sport in Short: Sailing

ALAIN GAUTIER, of France, rounded Cape Horn yesterday and set course for the finishing point at Les Sables d'Olonne on the west coast of France in the Vendee Globe round-the-world race. Gautier, 30, has a lead of around 350 nautical miles over his countryman Philippe Poupon. Only eight of the 14 starters who left Les Sables d'Olonne on 22 November are left in the race.