Volvo Ocean Race / Sam Davies : "We made it !"

Battered, bruised, but defiant to the last, Team SCA (Sam Davies/GBR) finally completed a gruelling Leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Tuesday and arrived to a well-deserved Brazilian welcome fit for heroines.

Credit : Rick Tomlinson/Team SCA

Volvo Ocean Race / Dongfeng retires on leg5 and will motor the boat to Itajaí. (Video)

But even so, as Dongfeng Race Team announced late tonight that they plan to retire from Leg 5 after breaking their mast in the Southern Ocean on Monday morning, it will have been a bitter pill for Charles Caudrelier to swallow.