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Volvo Ocean RaceThe first film: Stanjek shows the boat

Tatjana Pokorny

 · 24.04.2014

Volvo Ocean Race: The first film: Stanjek shows the boatPhoto: Team Brunel Photos
VOR Team Brunel Training Lanzarote Robert Stanjek 04/2014
Robert Stanjek has been fighting for the last place in Team Brunel for almost three weeks. In his first film, he presents Brunel's boat

Berlin star boat sailor Robert Stanjek has been fighting for the last place in the Dutch Volvo Ocean Race Team Brunel at a training camp on Lanzarote for almost three weeks. The decision as to whether Stanjek or his direct rival Pieter-Jan Postma will sail around the world with skipper Bouwe Bekking and the international crew should be made by the beginning of June. Stanjek presents the boat and his ambitions in his first film.

One man, one boat, one dream: the Berlin star boat sailor wants to sail around the world with the Dutch team Brunel. In his first film, he introduces the boat and the crew.

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Tatjana Pokorny

Tatjana Pokorny

Sports reporter

Tatjana “tati” Pokorny is the author of nine books. As a reporter for Europe's leading sailing magazine YACHT, she also works as a correspondent for the German Press Agency (DPA), the Hamburger Abendblatt and other national and international media. In summer 2024, Tatjana will be reporting from Marseille on her ninth consecutive Olympic Games. Other core topics have been the America's Cup since 1992, the Ocean Race since 1993, the Vendée Globe and other national and international regattas and their protagonists. Favorite discipline: Portraits of and interviews with sailing personalities. When she started out in sports journalism, she was still intensively involved with basketball and other sports, but sailing quickly became her main focus. The reason? The declared optimist says: “There is no other sport like it, no other sport with such interesting and intelligent personalities, no other sport so diverse, no other sport so full of energy, strength and ideas. Sailing is like a constantly refreshing declaration of love for life."

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