MacArthur sets sail on solo round-the-world challenge
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British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur set sail in an attempt to set a new solo round-the-world record.
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VALENCIA, Spain  - Alinghi will try to clinch the America's Cup for a second time on Tuesday after their first attempt at winning sailing's oldest and most coveted prize was stymied by a lack of wind.
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Ellen MacArthur's bid to set a new round the world solo non-stop record suffered a setback when the British yachtswoman suffered a head injury.
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Francis Joyon, a Frenchman, circled the planet in 57 days 13 hours 34 minutes 6 seconds in a trimaran, shattering the record set by Ellen MacArthur by two weeks.
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A Scottish man has become the fastest to cycle around the world, completing the trip in 195 days and six hours
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Ellen MacArthur has endured stormy seas, 65 mph winds, a broken sail, burns, bruises and exhaustion - even a close encounter with a whale. The payoff: a solo around-the-world sailing record.
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Morgan has made the perilous journey to the Canary Islands once before. He intends to try again, even though his life will be at risk.
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Peter Lonard will this week attempt to become the first player to win the Australian Open, PGA and Masters titles in a single season.
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Ellen MacArthur slips behind record pace in her attempt to beat Francis Joyon's solo round-the-world mark of 72 days.
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Surfers around the world may complain about crowded conditions, but for dozens of South Africa wave riders it was the more the merrier as they lined up to break a world record by riding a single wave.
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Flying solo around the globe non-stop has been hailed as the last great aviation challenge on earth by Sir Richard Branson, who has put more than Â£1 million into the project.
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Ernie Els has laid out a three-year battle plan to challenge Tiger Woods as world number one.
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Nearly 60 years after Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and five others crossed the Pacific on their Kon-Tiki raft, six men will attempt to redo the feat next year, the head of the expedition said.
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Ernie Els got the better of Thomas Bjorn yet again yesterday to win his first solo World Golf Championships title. And on a horribly wet and windy day at Mount Juliet in County
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Anyone who    wants to follow in the shoes of Burt Rutan and win the next big space prize    will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than five    people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete two orbits of the Earth    at that altitude. Then they have to repeat that accomplishment within 60 days.
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Yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur's was powering ahead in her bid to set a new solo round-the-world record as she navigated 715 miles off the southwest tip of Australia.
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British skipper Alex Thomson was set to be rescued from his capsized yacht early Friday by a rival sailor in a solo round-the-world yacht race.