India anxiety hits Volvo climax
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Your support makes all the difference.As winds dropped anxiety rocketed for the final miles of the Volvo round the world race fleet approaching Kochi, south-west India, at the end if the second leg from Cape Town.
Organisers were also on full alert following the terrorist killings in Mumbai 1,000 kilometres north of the resort town where the eight boats should be arriving from Sunday onwards. There is no history of terrorist activity in Kochi, but the Indian Navy has been alerted and contact is constant between the British race hq, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Indian government and private agencies.
As on the first leg, Torben Grael's Ericsson 4 seemed to have made a decisive break with 600 miles to go, but, despite wallowing in three knots of breeze, Ian Walker's Irish entry Green Dragon was level-pegging with Anders Lewander's Ericsson 3 for second place with Bouwe Bekking's Telefonica Blue just one more mile adrift.
Roberti Bermudez has pushed Delta Lloyd up to fifth, ahead of a struggling Kenny Read in the American entry Puma.
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