Source: CCTV.com

04-24-2009 10:49

Moving now to the Volvo Ocean Race, where the top two teams in the event decided to use the strategy of masking satellite information in their fight for the lead on Thursday.

Telefonica Blue had been comfortably leading the sixth leg by 100 nautical miles earlier, but Ericsson 4 has been reducing the gap during the past week. Under the rules of the race, a boat can mask its satellite position to other boats once for 12 hours on the longer legs to give an element of strategy to the race. Behind them are Ericsson 3, Puma, Telefonica Black and Delta Lloyd in a long line while Green Dragon is well behind.

The sixth leg takes the fleet from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and up the eastern coast to Boston in the US. The first boats are expected to arrive in Boston on Sunday or Monday.

Bouwe Bekking of Telefonica Blue said, "The weather sometimes does its own things. But right now in the lead and all very happy. But still a long way to go to Boston, still we expect to arrive sometime on Sunday of next week."

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Editor:Zheng Limin