Dubois stormed on across the finish line just over nine hours behind the winner Bernard Stamm on Bobst Group-Armor

Dubois stormed on across the finish line just over nine hours behind the winner, Bernard Stamm, on Bobst Group-Armor Lux. Trailing in Pindar’s wake for most of the second half of the leg, Dubois throttled up after a problem with her broken mainsail halyard slowed Richards down. From then on it was a head-to-head battle to the end, and both sailors looked worn out from their close combat right to the line. The only woman in Around Alone, Richards said: “I am looking forward to the next leg I can’t wait to see what this boat does down south But first I want something cold to drink and hot to eat.”. A subdued Adrian Stead yesterday admitted that GBR Challenge face a tough struggle in their Louis Vuitton Cup quarter-final after they came down from the high of an opening win against Dennis Conner’s Stars & Stripes and were powerless to stop the Americans making it 1-1 in the second race of the best-of-seven series.

They hammered home the small advantage they had”.He rejected the notion that the boat, Wight Lightning, has a fatal speed disadvantage. “I certainly don’t think we are up against a team that is a country mile ahead,” he said. “The game is not slipping away from us, not in the slightest. Neither boat has a decisive speed edge and, from where we are, we are more than happy to go and take it to them tomorrow.”However, it is clear that there is now huge pressure on the helmsman Andy Beadsworth to manoeuvre the 80-foot yacht into a controlling position at the start, while GBR Challenge must play it tight throughout, never giving the American skipper, Kenny Read, who has been having confidence crises of his own, the chance to take control.In the other ties, Oracle BMW, not for the first time, broke its spinnaker pole but used a wraparound splint to hold off OneWorld and claim their second win. This is the ninth straight victory the boat has recorded since Chris Dickson was installed as skipper.In a southerly breeze swinging through 40 degrees on the second course, the Swedes on Victory Challenge just sailed round and away from Le Defi Areva of France, now prime candidates to throw the first farewell party.The favourites, Alinghi of Switzerland, find themselves in a difficult scrap, though. They were pushed all the way by Prada and at eight seconds the margin of victory for Alinghi was not comfortable.. Insulin and human growth hormone (hGH) could be dropped from the list of banned substances within Olympic sports next year, purely because they have not been shown to boost performance illegally.

He added that others such as caffeine, heroin, morphine, pseudoephedrine and cannabis should also go.”Rule makers forget that everything on the list, especially the new list which will be based on scientific evidence, must be performance-enhancing,” Kuipers, a former world speed skating champion, said.”In the case of insulin there are serious side effects but no performance enhancement Insulin should not be on the list. The motivation for adding insulin to the list of banned substances was the assumption that insulin injections could act as recovery enhancing means. However, there is no scientific basis for this assumption.” He added that further study was needed on hGH, for which there is no reliable test yet in place, although he stressed it should stay on the list for the time being. “Although hGH appears to be used by some athletes, no study has shown any enhancing effect in any sport in healthy persons.”. Andrew Flintoff’s hopes of featuring in the remainder of the Ashes series were boosted yesterday when the England all-rounder was given the all-clear following a scan. Flintoff has not played since the three-day match against Queensland before the first Test, after which he suffered an adverse reaction.The England coach, Duncan Fletcher, said: “Andrew had a scan on his groin which was clear and he’s available for selection.