Offshore racing
Vendée Globe 2016-2017 : a hugely popular event and media success
mercredi 22 mars 2017 – Information Vendée Globe
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The results of the 2016-2017 Vendée Globe show huge increases everywhere : many more people attending the event, unprecedented media coverage and feedback, a record level of international coverage without talking about the very positive race outcome in terms of the rankings. With 29 skippers lining up, 18 were ranked, which is a record number in the history of the Vendée Globe.
IV – The success of the Junior Vendée Globe
1) Educational pack
The Junior Vendée Globe saw 1500 packs distributed in schools half of which went to those in Vendée. Polls have shown that more than 90 % of teachers were pleased with the quality of the pack. It was widely used and often copied for other classes.
2) The Junior Vendée Globe website
This pack was in addition to the Junior Vendée Globe website. The Junior Vendée Globe website saw almost 258,900 single visitors and more than 2 million pages were viewed.
3) Almost 13,000 youngsters welcomed to the village
School classes were given a special welcome to suit their needs for two hours. They were welcomed and accompanied by members of the Vendée Arts and Heritage School.
6570 school children were thus welcomed to les Sables d’Olonne or 148 schools and 244 classes.
6429 school children and around ten associations (a hundred or so people) were welcomed in addition to these arrangements at the start Village for the Vendée Globe.
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