It is tough enough for any sailor just to complete the non-stop round-the-world Vendee Globe, let alone win it but winning it while battling cancer, as French skipper Charlie Dalin did in January, is another kind of toughness altogether.

The 41-year-old, whose book “The Power of Destiny” (“La Force du Destin”) is published on Thursday, has revealed to AFP that he was suffering from a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer as he steered his boat Macif to victory in a record 64 days.

“It certainly made the task a little more complicated to have this ‘intruder’ on board,” Dalin told AFP.

“Today I see it as a double victory, in the race and, above all, in everything that has happened to me.”

Dalin, who had finished second in his only previous Vendee in 2020-21, was diagnosed with a gastroint

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