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COVER STORY: Hell and high water The record-breaking sailor Ellen MacArthur doesn't like losing. That's why withdrawing from the Jules Verne Trophy was the hardest thing she's ever had to do. In her first newspaper interview since her return,

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20030321
Author:JULIA STUART

Ellen MacArthur's PR has, time after time, watched journalists try to fathom Britain's leading woman sailor. They have sat, valiantly attempting to discover what is it about the 5ft 3in, eight-stone, 26- year- old from Derby that makes her risk a particularly gruesome death to hack round the world's oceans in the most godforsaken conditions - often alone - regularly beating men with far more experience to the finishing line. But MacArthur is, apparently, just an ordinary girl who does something extraordinary. "She farts and burps like everyone else," insists Lou, her PR.

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