Despite having hosted several major international events over the past two years, Ghana has once again been slow off the starting line.

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They did, however, go through with letting about 35, 000 runners take off from the starting line for a half marathon and shorter races.

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Spectators watch from shore as the big yachts jockey before the start, trying to avoid one another and the treacherous rocks off the Squadron, as they pound toward the narrow starting line.

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The fever overtook not only New Yorkers but sports fans everywhere when the undrafted Harvard graduate came off the New York Knicks bench to help win games and a spot in the starting line-up.

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Kind of like standing at the starting line with Olympic athletes, then not even hearing the starting gun go off.

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Symonds, whose last Test was against South Africa in April, held off competition from uncapped batsman Adam Voges to make the starting line-up.

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Prost, starting in second position, overtook polesitter Senna off the line.

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Although Cardiff led at the break, Jones would have been concerned that both striker Chopra and full-back Kevin McNaughton limped off in the first half - especially when defender Darcy Blake withdrew from the starting line-up after suffering an injury in the warm-up.

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