Frantic sprint for finish line
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Tension built to a fever pitch yesterday as President Bush and John Kerry ran neck and neck into the homestretch in a final frenzied sprint around the battleground states.
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(CHARLOTTE) - Five racers are separated by 82 points heading into the final event of NASCAR&#39;s ten-race Chase for the Nextel Cup Championship.
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Teams often try to establish the running game early in hopes of wearing down the opposition and eating up the clock. Boston English accomplished both in the first half yesterday, rushing for 129 yards and chewing up 14:54.
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The noise was deafening and potentially unsettling in the minutes before the start of the men&#39;s Olympic 200-meter final. The Olympic Stadium crowd chanted &quot;Hellas!
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The race for the Nextel Cup championship is down to the wire and the points leader is running away from the field. Suddenly, a slower car gets in his way, holding him up until the other contenders catch up. It just so happens, the slower car is a teammate of one of the contenders. Impossible? Think again.
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A fight breaks out, and even though people at the far side of the crowd can&#39;t see what&#39;s going on, they are immediately on edge.
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Using mental tricks, or dissociating, can get you to the finish line faster.
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Lying in Amy Acuff&#39;s path to the high-jump bar was an exhausted and jubilant English sprinter. Britain had just upset the United States in the men&#39;s 4x100-meter relay on Saturday.
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One was running to put a final stamp on his team's championship, the other to pull his squad near the top of the point totals.
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Time slips away in a hurry as Tim Thomas runs around looking to make something happen in short order. The slumping forward&#39;s on a short leash at the moment and wound up watching most of last
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Even by Michael Schumacher&#39;s standards, to qualify on pole and win your 13th race of the season in one day is a super-human effort.
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For the three American runners, getting last night&#39;s 200-meter final started was somewhat awkward and tense. But the finish was a thing of beauty -- as Shawn Crawford, Bernard Williams
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Opponents aren't the only ones having a tough time matching Max Darrah's pace. Record-keepers are struggling to keep up, as well.
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IT WAS typical of the trend of the match that it should finish this way. There was a power threat lurking from early on in a contest that took an age to warm up.
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HOLYOKE -- At last week's Division 1 Eastern Mass. championship, the Lexington boys had to wait out the final three relay events before clinching the team title.
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Trindon Holliday, a speedy kickoff returner, slot receiver, end-around threat and even inside runner, is scaring opponents on the track, where his speed is world class.
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Yesterday&#39;s Olympics treated us to the two extremes of athletics, the endurance race which tests the body to its limits, and the heavyweight showdown, the sprint, which is in the mind.