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Frenchman Charles Caudrelier was named as skipper for the Chinese 2014/15 Volvo Ocean Race challenger Dongfeng Race Team on Wednesday (February 26th).

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Knut Frostad, CEO of Volvo Ocean Race:
"Well, I think it's a kind of change in the event, you know, like there's a flooding of new people coming into the race from new countries, and it's something we've been working on for a very long time, to open up this event so it's accessible to new markets and new countries, and China is certainly a nation that is slowly getting into sailing and now have two Olympic medals in sailing in recent years, and now Volvo Ocean Race is on their doorstep and they're really taking it seriously this time, and I think you can't count them out."