Later Career
In the new millennium, Van de Velde was troubled by injuries for several years, but he made a dramatic comeback at the 2005 Open de France, where he lost a playoff to fellow Frenchman Jean-François Remésy (after, once again, finding water on the last hole). In 2006, he won his second European Tour title at the Madeira Island Open Caixa Geral de Depositos.
In 2012 he was named by UNICEF France as an ambassador - only the second French sportsman, after Lilian Thuram, to achieve this.
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