Victim of Areva Challenge's performances and results in LV Act 13, Thierry Peponnet is no longer tactician of the team.

It's been a hard end of campaign for the twice Olympic medalist (in 470 dinghy) after, due to the results of the 2006 Acts, he was forced to reverse his role of skipper with Sébastien Col on July 6th.

The French boat tactician announced today that he will step down from his position because he feels an "important move" was needed in the afterguard to counteract the team’s average results in Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 13.

The Areva Challenge afterguard for Round Robin 1 of the Louis Vuitton Cup starting on Monday, will see Sébastien Col at the helm, Tanguy Carriou as tactician, Frédéric Guilmin as strategist and Jean François Cuzon as navigator.

Thierry Peponnet will continue working with the team alongside coach Fabrice Levet in performance analysis.