SIDELINES : Body of Yachtsman Discovered
The body of a Soviet yachtsman taking part in the 25-boat Whitbread Round the World race was found hanging from a tree in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este this morning, police said.
Alexej Gryshenko, captain of the U.S.-sponsored Fazisi yacht, had been missing for two days. Police could give no details.
Gryshenko had co-skippered the Fazisi, which sports a Pepsi Cola logo and a red hammer and sickle on its spinnaker, on the race’s 6,300-mile first leg from Southampton, England, to Punta del Este, 75 miles east of Montevideo.
He was due to take sole command of the 17-man Soviet crew for the rest of the 33,000-mile course after his co-captain, American Skip Novak, helped complete the first leg.
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