Qingdao native aims to make sailing history
Updated: 2014-06-09 04:53
By JACK FREIFELDER in New York (China Daily USA)
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A boat from Qingdao, Shandong province, leaves port on Saturday at the North Marina Cove in New York to start the final legs of the 2013-2014 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Vicky Song, one of the crewmembers on the boat, is poised to become the first Chinese woman to circumnavigate the globe. JACK FREIFELDER / CHINA DAILY |
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