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Latest Vendee Globe news from Armel Le Cleac'h on Banque Populaire.

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SOUNDBITE: (French) Armel Le Cleac'h on Banque Populaire
"Hello, it's Sunday, December 16 and we are in the Furious Fifties in the southern Hemisphere, 51 degrees south. It's very cold and to show you how cold here we have some olive oil which has frozen. So I am going to show you that. Here you see the olive oil has become completely hard. It's five or six degrees on the boat, the clothes are drying, I have taken out the Polar blanket here to sleep with the pillow, the mattress and there you see the gloves, the balaclava, the Polar gloves, all the material is here....and outside it's wet, there is the sea, it's cold, with drops in the atmosphere, some lighter periods, it's still pretty choppy and we're going to go by the east gate Australia tomorrow."