For EDITORIAL USE only,please credit: Rick Tomlinson/Volvo Ocean Race....Watch Captain Sidney Gavignet (FRA)....PUMA Ocean Racing,skippered by Ken Read (USA),finishes second,on leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race,from Singapore to Qingdao,China at 08:17:36 GMT....Kenny Read/USA,guided PUMA through the finish of Volvo Ocean Race leg four in Qingdao,China today at 0817 GMT (1617 local time) to claim second place after an unbelievable effort,which saw the team break their boom and drop anchor in the Philippines order to make repairs.....On arrival in Qingdao,PUMAs skipper,Kenny Read said:.... Our crew really became a team on this leg. We have really found our legs. After our problems we came back with an unbelievable effort. We came together.....The Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 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 Cochin,India,Singapore and Qingdao,China before finishing in St Petersburg,Russia for the first time in the history of the race. Spanning some 37,000 nautical miles,visiting 11 ports over nine months,the Volvo Ocean Race is the world's premier ocean 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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