Ellen MacArthur - Iconic Speech

Ellen MacArthur collects her Action Sportsperson of the Year award at the Laureus World Sports Awards 2015 in Estoril, Portugal!
Ellen MacArthur set the record for a round-the-world solo sail. She was, since 2001, already the fastest woman and youngest person ever to make a solo circumnavigation. But then she set off from Falmouth in the autumn, and proceeded to beat the existing record of Francis Joyon of France by one day.
In the end, MacArthur completed the 27,000-mile journey in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds. On her arduous journey, MacArthur battled hurricanes, dodged icebergs and whales and endured endless nights en route through some of the world's most notorious weather spots -- past the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and round Cape Horn in South America.

The feat earned her commendations from the Queen, which will confer on her the highest royal honour, to be named a ‘Dame’, the female equivalent of a knighthood, from the Royal Navy, which made her an honorary Lt.Commander; and from Time Magazine, which named her a ‘Hero of 2004’.