The danger is always watching as it can testify Roland Jourdain, and until the same line of impact one has the sword of Damocles above. The possibility always exists of colliding with a lost container, a trunk or any not identified voluminous object. One never knows if on effort it is going to generate one serious failure in the keel or the rigging. The continuous anguish minute by minute and with more pressure than ever for being the one that is in race head. The pressure increases until the very same goal in them Sabers d' Olonne. The effort continues until the last day, as Desjoyeaux commented well that was forced to support very disagreeable and variable gusts of wind of 53 wind knots until the last day of regata.

After 45 days in head well was had it deserved. Now along with the edition of the year 2000 second victory in a Vendée Globe is his. In the arrival tens of thousands of fans they hoped its last miles to ovacionar to the double champion. But the return to earth after 3 months alone is always hard. In the sea, except for rare exceptions, it is only desired to reach the goal and to end the suffering, and as soon as it is arrived at earth, the unique thing that desires is to return to put to sea and to lose themselves again in the ocean forgetting without reason of the society in which we lived.

It is necessary a certain time to retake the rate of the daily life. Between the mist it suddenly appears the coast, again the coast after 3 months of navigation by all the seas of the world! And there will be many things that to say and some impossible ones to explain. When the boat reaches the goal becomes a berthed sailboat more in pantalán inert and without life. Everything is logical and nevertheless it seems to make no sense. In awhile the development comes to you at the top from all the return to the world and the experiences are crowded in the mind with extreme rapidity. But it is necessary to return to the world that we know and to adapt again to his customs. The custom to eat every day to the same hour, to sleep of a pull the same number of hours, to see the television newscast, to make the same routine .....

Some as Bernard Moitessier did not want to accept the challenge of the worldly life accepting to lose their race in spite of taking days of advantage on the second competitor, Sir Robin Knox Johnston, and of the pull to hook one second return to the world because yes.

In second position entered Amel Him Cleac' h with one week of difference and another week later Marc Guillemot third position.

The following 3 arrivals took place nevertheless in the course of a few hours. Everything has been very unforseeable and different from the happened thing in other editions where the battle by podio was extremely fought until the end. The international jury has compensated to Riou to that was requested to him that it turned aside of his route to aid to Him Cam which produced one serious failure in its PRB that finally forced to him to leave. All this has given like result the one that the third place has been shared by 3 regatistas; Samantha Davies that the line of impact in third position crossed, Marc Guillemot that by compensation was strained in the third position and Vincent Riou that it had to leave regata when it walked in second position giving hunting to Desjoyeaux, by to have taken care of the distress signal of Jean him Cam that was in serious danger of death with its given boat the return in half of Indico.