It’s the only race of its kind, connecting five continents, over roughly 40,000 thousand ocean miles. A nine-month endurance test for six teams and nearly 40 professional sailing athletes attempting ...

Since 1973, the Volvo Ocean Race has provided the ultimate test of a team and a human adventure like no other. Over four decades it has kept an almost mythical hold over some of the greatest ever ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Team Dongfeng and French skipper Charles Caudrelier made a last-leg navigational gamble pay off to win the Volvo Ocean Race, prevailing in a three-boat sprint to the ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) Dirk de Ridder will sail the fifth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race with Team Brunel, his first major competition since serving an 18-month suspension stemming from one of the biggest ...

A second boat has pulled out of the first leg of the Volvo Ocean Race, leaving just four teams racing from Spain to Cape Town, South Africa. The Abu Dhabi boat sustained a broken mast just six hours ...

An extraordinary challenge needs a trophy to match... Volvo, the Swedish carmaker which for quite some time has gotten us used to what they call the Volvo Ocean Race presented today in Alicante, Spain ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) NBC Sports Network will provide broadcast coverage in the U.S. of the Volvo Ocean Race while Outside Television will provide broadcast and digital coverage during the nine-month ...

Alicante, Spain. 6 Nov. 2011 (WAM) - Ian Walker, skipper of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing Arabias first entry in the grueling, 39,000 nautical mile Volvo Ocean Race which started from Alicante in Spain ...

Seven of the world's biggest and fastest sailboats are making pit stops on the East Coast of the United States. They're midway through the globe-circling "Volvo Ocean Race." The boats are big, nimble, ...

Volvo will unveil the third in its series of new concepts to the 2014 Geneva Motor Show, but it will also bring a flotilla of special editions to the Swiss show. The V70 and XC70 are getting ...

Ship design and engineering company C-Job Naval Architects on Thursday announced changes to its executive team. Job Volwater will move from his position as Chief Commercial Officer and take on the ...

June 1 (Reuters) - The Volvo Ocean race will be under new ownership when the next edition of the round the world event starts in 2021 and could also have another class of boat competing, organisers ...