Suspended sentence over Volvo Ocean accident
Boat skipper banned for 6 months
LORIENT, France, July 12, (AFP): A French court on Tuesday handed down a six-month suspended sentence on a boat skipper over a collision which left a woman seriously injured at the start of the 2015 Volvo Ocean Race in Britanny.
Yann Guichard was also fined 25,000 euros ($28,000, £21,000) by the court in Lorient for the accident that marred the start of the ninth and final stage of the famous round-the-world race.
The 42-year-old was at the helm of a trimaran belonging to Spindrift Racing which was not involved in the race itself when it collided with an organiser’s inflatable boat with four people aboard.
A woman was thrown overboard and was injured by one of the trimaran’s rudders. She was evacuated to a hospital by helicopter and her left leg was eventually amputated while the other suffered multiple fractures.
Guichard was convicted of causing involuntary injury to Virginie Le Namouric. suffering. Moving on is sort of a celebration to me. I hope people never forget,” she said recently. “There’s a new generation of kids that maybe haven’t heard. I invite people to learn about him and be inspired by him.”
Ali is using the show as a teaching moment for her own kids, 7-year-old Curtis Jr. and 5-year-old Sydney. She is married to former USC and NFL star Curtis Conway.
“They can watch the show and watch all the winners on the stage, so when they see Chris Paul or Brent Burns or Tina Charles, I can say, ‘Look what they do when they’re off the court,’” she said. “They’re never too young to start learning. I learned that through my father, not only him telling me but showing me.”
Burns of the San Jose Sharks, Charles of the New York Liberty, Carlos Dunlap of the Cincinnati Bengals and Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers are finalists for sports humanitarian of the year.
Meanwhile, a jockstrap worn by boxer Joe Frazier when he defeated Muhammad
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Ali for the combined heavyweight title hit the auction block on Monday, along with the gloves Ali wore in that 1971 bout dubbed the “Fight of the Century.”
The jockstrap — expected to sell for $10,000 — already met its minimum bid of $5,000 bid by mid-morning, said Ken Goldin, owner of Goldin Auctions of Runnemede, New Jersey.
No bids had yet been received for the gloves, which are expected to sell for more than $1 million, Goldin said.
The auction concludes with live bidding on Aug 4.
“People used to make jokes about auctioning off jockstraps as an example of something outrageous,” Goldin told Reuters. “Here we got one consigned for sale.”