For EDITORIAL USE only,please credit: Rick Tomlinson/Volvo Ocean Race....PUMA Ocean Racing competing in the Volvo Ocean race in-port race in Alicante,Spain.....This time around there are two races,both lasting for a couple of laps,with a target time for each race of just 50 minutes. The winner of each race gets four points,second 3.5,third gets three points and so on. The yacht with the highest number of points from the two races wins the day.....The 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race will be the 10th running of this ocean marathon. Starting from Alicante in Spain on 4 October 2008,it will for the first time,take in ports in Asia. Spanning some 39,000 nautical miles,stopping at around 11 ports and taking nine months to complete,the Volvo Ocean Race is the world's premier yacht race for professional racing crews.....For all media enquiries please contact Lizzie Ward on +44 (0)1489 554 832 or email <A HREF=\\"mailto:lizzie.ward@volvooceanrace.org\\">lizzie.ward@volvooceanrace.org</A>. For all photographic enquiries,please contact Tim Stonton on +44 (0)1489 554 867 or email <A HREF=\\"mailto:tim.stonton@volvooceanrace.org\\">tim.stonton@volvooceanrace.org</A>. For further images,please go to <A HREF=\\"http://images.volvooceanrace.org\\">http://images.volvooceanrace.org</A>
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