Vendee Globe winner Dalin banishes nightmare of 2021

Dalin, who was the first boat to arrive in 2021 only to finish second because Yannick Bestaven was awarded a time bonus for helping a stricken rival, was greeted by a chorus of ships' klaxons near the port of Sables-d'Olonne. His time of 64 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes and 49 seconds beat by more than nine days the record set by Armel Le Cleac'h in 2017. Dalin, 40, led for the majority of the race and his closest challenger, Yoann Richomme, was more than half a day behind. His wife Perrine and seven-year-old...