On the occasion of the awarding of the Maxi Yacht Cup, Lars Grael received one of the most touching demonstrations of liking, that it tells us long on how much his name and his background are kept in account among the professionals sailors. When His turn has come to withdraw the prize, he has gone to the stage with his clothes hanger. He has made a sign with the head to the landlords, prince Aga Khan and princess Zahra, and than he has turned his haead back: there has been an applause that seemed it shoudn't have to an end anymore. It was warm like an embrace. Not everybody perhaps knew that just at the same time, ten years before, his terrible accident had occurred; they didn't know that this was the date of his descent to the hell, from which however he has succeeded in going up again. We can, you can.

(Press: "La Stampa", 8th September 2008, Fabio Pozzo)