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A suspicion of cheating in the 2020-2021 Vendée Globe concerns the sailor and Tanguy Le Turquais. They then deny that an investigation was launched by the French Sailing Federation.
The names were quick to leak. After the announcement at the beginning of the week by two media, The Telegrams et LâÃquipe, of a suspicion of cheating in the Vendée Globe 2020-2021 concerning two sailors, one at sea and the other on land, the names of Clarisse Crémer and Tanguy Le Turquais are now on the public square. Companions in life and parents of a little girl, they must now answer to an accusation of cheating for having exchanged information concerning the weather, which is strictly prohibited by the regulations for a solo round-the-world trip, non-stop but also without assistance.
The screenshots of the WhatsApp application sent to the French Sailing Federation by an anonymous email seem to leave little doubt about these totally prohibited routing exchanges. ©s. And the federation was quick to react, deciding to compose an international jury, a priori of five members, which, according to our information, has already been © designated and should meet within ten or fifteen days to study the facts and hear the sailors. The federation’s disciplinary committee should then meet to decide whether or not to impose sanctions after consulting the jury.
The couple denies any cheating
The two interested parties were quick to react. And to replicate this Thursday on social networks. HAS” We never cheated or ever had any desire to break a rule during this 87 world tour. days. During our exchanges which essentially concern the intimacy of a couple, Tanguy never gives me the slightest information that I do not already have. assures Clarisse Crémer. No conversation with him contributed to me changing course or making a strategic choice that would have had an impact on my race. I have always made all my performance choices alone and without assistance, in accordance with the rules. Three years after the end of the Vendée Globe, we can only wonder about the motivations and timing of this anonymous disclosure and we reserve the right to file a complaint if necessary. »
At the end of last year, two sailors from the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec, Benoît Tuduri and Pierre Daniellot, were sanctioned for having downloaded uploaded files. o during the race with their phone (which is prohibited on the Solitaire, but not on the Vendée Globe). The first was excluded from the classification of the race and the second disqualified from the second and third stages, before the federation suspended them from all competition even before their passage before the disciplinary committee.
A risk of exclusion
Despite their denial, for Clarisse Crémer and Tanguy Le Turquais, the sky is turning into a storm, even a storm. Because, if the facts are true, the first risks exclusion from the last Vendée Globe and therefore the loss of her 12th place and that of “first woman”. And, for the two sailors, the risk is certain that they will not be able to participate in the next edition, which is due to start from Les Sables-d’Olonne on November 10. The young Francilienne had already been at the heart of the turmoil just a year ago after being let go from the Vendée Globe project by her partner, Banque Populaire , who feared that, due to her maternity, she would not be able to qualify for the 2024-2025 edition. His ouster had been widely criticized, even by the Minister of Sports. And she managed to bounce back by finding a new sponsor, L’Occitane, and a boat that she is currently preparing in England with former round-the-world sailor Alex Thomson. Here she is now, with her companion, forced to defend herself to save her image damaged by this new affair.
