{"id":1052,"date":"2012-07-10T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchpro.wpengine.com\/2012\/07\/10\/iwcs-abu-dhabi-team-completes-volvo-ocean-race\/"},"modified":"2012-07-10T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:28:47","slug":"iwcs-abu-dhabi-team-completes-volvo-ocean-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/iwcs-abu-dhabi-team-completes-volvo-ocean-race\/","title":{"rendered":"IWC’s Abu Dhabi team completes Volvo Ocean race"},"content":{"rendered":"
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, IWC’s team in the Volvo Ocean Race, recently became the first Arabian entry to complete the nine-month round the world journey.<\/strong><\/p>\n The team was placed sixth in the final short sprint from Lorient, France to Galway, Ireland – the event’s 10th and last stopover. The Abu Dhabi team featured 23 year old Olympian Adil Khalid, the first Emirati national to contest the race.<\/p>\n Despite the wet and cold conditions, tens of thousands of people are said to have braved the weather to welcome the fleet in the early morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, IWC’s team in the Volvo Ocean Race, recently became the first Arabian entry to complete the nine-month round the world journey. The team was placed sixth in the final short sprint from Lorient, France to Galway, Ireland – the event’s 10th and last stopover. IWC is not only behind the Abu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[4,2,1],"tags":[1147,1149,176,1148],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIWC is not only behind the Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing team and their boat, Azzam, but was also the official timekeeper of the Volvo Ocean race.<\/p>\n