The Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway will host the opening stage of the 2013 Tour of Britain cycle race.
As for Mrs Buffet, she has proved an incisive minister of sport in the Socialist-led coalition government of Lionel Jospin, notably by refusing to turn a blind eye to rampant drug-taking in the annual Tour de France cycle race.
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The cycle road race on the opening weekend of the Olympics took riders from the Mall, through west London, out to Surrey and back again, and included a 9.6-mile (15.5km) circuit around Box Hill.
The cycle road race on the opening weekend of the Olympics in July took cyclists from the Mall, through west London to Surrey and back again, and included a 9.6-mile (15.5km) circuit around Box Hill.
The taxi drivers will be particularly busy on 28 and 29 July - the opening weekend of the Olympics - and 1 August when Surrey hosts the Olympic men's and women's cycle road race and time trial events.
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As well as physical training to prepare, Zanardi spent hours working as his own race engineer, fine-tuning his cycle until it perfectly complemented his body.
He's set a precedent with such past events as an Alley Cat Race in August 2012, where participants act like bike couriers and see who can cycle the fastest through 10 assigned checkpoints, as well as a December 2011 Goldsprint race, in which competitors pedal furiously on stationery bikes for 500m to gain victory.
Paul, who's making his third bid for president, has failed to win a single contest this cycle and trails in the delegate race with 72 delegates to Romney's 685, according to CNN estimates.
This is not the first time this administration has gotten caught up in the immediacy of the news cycle when it comes to issues of race.
In Washington, which was considered this cycle's other toss-up race, Gov. Gregoire and GOP challenger Dino Rossi, a former state senator, restaged their 2004 contest that Gov. Gregoire won by 133 votes -- the closest percentage margin of any governor's race in U.S. history.
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The importance of California's 54 electoral votes in the presidential race in 2000 are not missed on candidates in this election cycle.
"His initial idea (was) to get a group of people together who would not commit until late in the cycle, to make sure if somebody new got into the race that was exciting and we thought was the ideal person, we would have a group ready to go, " Wynn said.
Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota -- who unsuccessfully ran for president in the 2012 election cycle -- was re-elected in a hard-fought race.
And in what may have been the most surprising result of the 2006 election cycle, Democrat Jim Webb defeated the incumbent Republican George Allen in the race for one of Virginia's seats in the U.S. Senate.
He's philosophical about the extinction of the human race, for example, viewing it as just another stage in the Earth's life cycle.
In the 2008 election cycle his model nailed the winner in 49 out of 50 states in the presidential race (Indiana was the exception), and correctly predicted the winner of all 35 Senate elections.
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