The future winner of the Vendée Globe is expected in Les Sables d'Olonne on Wednesday, without an audience for the moment.
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The mayor of Sables d'Olonne (Vendée) Yannick Moreau wrote to Emmanuel Macron to ask him to accept the presence of a small audience at the arrival of the sailors of the Vendée Globe scheduled for this week.
“Mr. President, in a very constrained health context and with optimal protection rules that the mayor of Les Sables is the first to want to enforce, there must be a balanced way of ensuring a warm and human presence on the edge of the river. channel to welcome the skippers of the Vendée Globe with dignity, ”wrote Mr. Moreau in a letter that AFP was able to consult on Sunday.
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After their round-the-world tour, the first skippers are expected on Wednesday in the Vendée port, which will be closed to the public, as when the 33 skippers left on November 8.
"It is obviously not a question of bringing in spectators from all over France, it would be an epidemiological misunderstanding, but of allowing a few inhabitants of the port of Sables, filtered and entering a strict and defined gauge, to welcome must be the skippers of the Vendée Globe ”, continues the mayor (various right).
“I made a number of proposals to the Prefect of Vendée in this regard.
They have not been heard, but it is not yet too late to bring a little humanity to the return of the sailors from the Vendée Globe, ”concluded the elected official.
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