{"id":91752,"date":"2026-06-16T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/?p=91752"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:01:14","slug":"felix-merine-confirme-sa-participation-au-tour-des-yoles-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/felix-merine-confirme-sa-participation-au-tour-des-yoles-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00e9lix M\u00e9rine Confirms His Participation in the 2026 Tour des Yoles"},"content":{"rendered":"

For its 40the<\/sup> This year\u2019s 2026 Yole Race is full of surprises. A guest\u2014certainly a familiar face, but one who stands out this year\u2014will be joining the event. F\u00e9lix M\u00e9rine, a yole rower and mayor of Le Robert, will be part of the Caracoli Association\u2019s crew. The mayor will once again be representing UFR\/Chanflor.<\/h3>\n

In a video, F\u00e9lix M\u00e9rine can be seen training. Wearing a T-shirt, with his paddle in the pool and his feet on the ground, he rows vigorously. \u00abI\u2019m a mayor, but I\u2019ve been a rower since I was born,\u00bb explains F\u00e9lix M\u00e9rine. The mayor, elected three months ago to lead Le Robert, has been a rower since the age of 12. His political and business career\u2014he heads a transportation company\u2014has not overshadowed his passion for the sea. \u00abI was a business owner, and I was a yole rower. I\u2019m mayor, and I\u2019m a yole rower.\u00bb<\/p>\n

Even though F\u00e9lix M\u00e9rine hasn\u2019t been the captain of the rowing boat since 2023, he\u2019s eager to make himself available to the crew. \u00abIf they need me, I\u2019ll be there 100 percent. I train all the time. When I don\u2019t have time to go out with them, I train at home.\u00bb Just as in 2025, yole racing fans might see the man who won eleven races as skipper cutting through the waves. Back in 2025, F\u00e9lix M\u00e9rine had already taken his place aboard UFR\/Chanflor as a crew member under the command of Marc-Daniel Labourg. \u00abI gave my spot to Marc-Daniel Labourg, who\u2019s doing great\u2014a lovely young man. As soon as he needs me, I\u2019ll be there\u2014that\u2019s for sure.\u00bb<\/p>\n

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CHANFLOR Department led by F\u00e9lix M\u00e9rine in Foyal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than just a passion, rowing is a way of life for the new mayor of Le Robert. \u00abI don\u2019t swim in my pool\u2014I paddle,\u00bb he jokes. \u00abI\u2019m a competitor,\u00bb he continues more seriously. One thing is clear: he won\u2019t miss the 40the<\/sup> edition of this yole race. \u00abIf the young people need me, I\u2019ll be in a yole this year as mayor.\u00bb At 64, the mayor of Le Robert says he\u2019s in great shape and has nothing left to prove to anyone. \u00abI know my worth. I know what I\u2019ve accomplished. It\u2019s true that this will be unusual, even unprecedented, because I\u2019m the mayor, but first and foremost, I\u2019m a yole rower. I was born a yole rower; I am a yole rower.\u00bb<\/p>\n

The 40the<\/sup> The Tour des Yoles will begin on July 26 in Sainte-Anne, where it will conclude on August 2. Le Robert will host one stage. \u00abThis anniversary edition pays tribute to the pioneers of the competition by naming each stage after the first skippers who participated in the very first race in 1985. The final stage will thus be named after D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Lamon, the event\u2019s first-ever winner,\u00bb states the Round Yole Federation.<\/p>\n

Laurianne Nomel<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pour sa 40e \u00e9dition, ce tour des yoles 2026 regorge de surprises. Un invit\u00e9, certes habitu\u00e9 mais aujourd\u2019hui bien singulier, sera de la partie. F\u00e9lix M\u00e9rine, yoleur et maire du Robert, fera partie de l\u2019\u00e9quipage de l\u2019association Caracoli. L\u2019\u00e9dile portera une nouvelle fois les couleurs d\u2019UFR\/Chanflor. Dans une vid\u00e9o, on peut voir F\u00e9lix M\u00e9rine s\u2019entra\u00eener.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":91753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-actualite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91755,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91752\/revisions\/91755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}