Vendee Globe - Alex Thomson, Record Breaker

Who can tell whether maturity leads to family life, or having a family matures your approach to life? Until this Vendée Globe, Alex Thomson had a reputation for being a bit of a loose cannon. Undoubtedly capable and imaginative (remember the time he was filmed riding the keel of the previous Hugo Boss in evening dress?), but prone to accidents for which part of the blame just might have been attributable to lack of attention to detail or to optimistic judgement of risk.

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