performance sportive qu’ils vont accomplir

English translation: the race they are going to run

10:00 Dec 5, 2007
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Ships, Sailing, Maritime
French term or phrase: performance sportive qu’ils vont accomplir
This phrase is from a press release on the Transat Jacques Vabre race and is talking about the participants of the race as well as the technology behind getting a sailboat ready for the race.

The phrase is found in the following paragraph, "Lors d’un départ de course océanique, on imagine le grand large, on pense aux skippers, et à *la performance sportive qu’ils vont accomplir*, à l’aventure qu’ils vont vivre."

I'm stuck in the sense that I'm translating it literally, "the sporting performance that they will accomplish", but it just doesn't sound right to me. I can't help but think that there is a better way of putting it, but I'm just not getting there.

I'd greatly appreciate some advice! Thanks in advance!
Sara
Sara Mullin
France
Local time: 15:22
English translation:the race they are going to run
Explanation:
it's not conditional "on pense à la performance sportive que les skippers *vont* accomplir"
"...we think of the skippers, and the race they are going to run, the adventures they are going to have"
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Graham macLachlan
Local time: 15:22
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Thanks, Graham!
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1Something like ' the performance they would like to achieve
Cervin
4the race they are going to run
Graham macLachlan
4the sports feat they are about to accomplish
Drmanu49


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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Something like ' the performance they would like to achieve


Explanation:
or maybe 'sporting standards...

Cervin
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:22
Native speaker of: English
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Victoria Porter-Burns: I agree - could be either depending on how the rest of the phrase is worded
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1 day 3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
the race they are going to run


Explanation:
it's not conditional "on pense à la performance sportive que les skippers *vont* accomplir"
"...we think of the skippers, and the race they are going to run, the adventures they are going to have"

Graham macLachlan
Local time: 15:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Thanks, Graham!
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2 days 2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
the sports feat they are about to accomplish


Explanation:
Comment on Current Events in Sports. Cambridge-Oxford Boat Race. Englishmen in all parts of the .... She is capable of such a feat, and of others greater. ...
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0814F7355E11738DDDA00A94DB405B808EF1D3 - 16k

What was the greatest sports feat ever accomplished? Jesse Owens embarrassing Adolph Hitler at the Munich Games in 1936. Recreation & Sports.
www.answerbag.com/q_view/294278 - 42k -

Drmanu49
France
Local time: 15:22
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 174
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Asker: Thank you

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