2011 Extreme Sailing Series - Alinghi season starts in Oman

7:44 PM Fri 18 Feb 2011 GMT

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Alinghi begins an exciting new journey in the 2011 Extreme Sailing Series this weekend with the first event of the championship taking place in Oman. The Swiss team, back on the X40 multihulls after an absence of two years following their victorious 2008 campaign, is embarking on this new adventure with the ambition to consistently compete at the very highest level throughout the season against a line-up composed of eleven other top international teams. The team?s new recruit, Frenchman Yann Guichard, will be at the helm for this first event alongside three other multihull experts: Tanguy Cariou (skipper), Detrey (bowman) ...

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