{"id":23116,"date":"2015-06-11T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23116"},"modified":"2015-06-11T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:40:07","slug":"team-sca-historic-winners-of-leg-8-of-volvo-ocean-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/06\/team-sca-historic-winners-of-leg-8-of-volvo-ocean-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Team SCA Historic Winners of Leg 8 of Volvo Ocean Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"article-short-text\">Well, that&#8217;s one way of silencing the critics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Skipper Sam Davies and her Team SCA crew struck a resounding blow for women\u2019s offshore sailing in the early hours of Thursday morning when they gloriously clinched Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race.<\/p>\n<p>The comfortable victory was the first leg win by a female crew in offshore sailing\u2019s toughest challenge since Tracy Edwards\u2019\u00a0<em>Maiden<\/em>\u00a0clinched two stage wins in Class D of the 1989-90 race, won overall by Sir Peter Blake\u2019s famous Steinlager 2.<\/p>\n<p>At least as satisfying for the first all-women\u2019s crew to enter the race in 12 years will be the opportunity to silence those who suggested that they were looking outclassed in the current 12th edition by their experienced male rivals. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volvooceanrace.com\/en\/news\/9016_Silencing-the-critics.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#8217;s one way of silencing the critics. Skipper Sam Davies and her Team SCA crew struck a resounding blow for women\u2019s offshore sailing in the early hours of Thursday morning when they gloriously clinched Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race. The comfortable victory was the first leg win by a female crew in offshore sailing\u2019s toughest challenge since Tracy Edwards\u2019\u00a0Maiden\u00a0clinched two stage wins in Class D of the 1989-90 race, won overall by Sir Peter Blake\u2019s famous Steinlager 2. At least as satisfying for the first all-women\u2019s crew to enter the race in 12 years will be the opportunity to silence those who suggested that they were looking outclassed in the current 12th edition by their experienced male rivals. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[568,567,476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23120,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23116\/revisions\/23120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}