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Alex Thomson finishing Vendée Globe in cautious mode
Monday 28 January 2013
Foot off the pedal and doing everything to protect his third place over the last 500 miles, Alex Thomson was sounding happier as he added “I don’t care where I finish (in the Vendée Globe solo round the world race) just as long as I finish.”
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