Kenyan Augustine Choge, the Commonwealth 5000m champion, won the 1500m in a personal best of three minutes 32.72 seconds.
Following a crowd-pumping opening ceremony, day one of tournament action commenced with group stage play, throwing each competitor into a demanding run of best of three series.
Smith could give reserve Alex Ward a chance in Sunday's two dead rubbers, which are reduced to best of three sets, but hinted he was likely to stick with James Ward and Baker.
With Britain now trailing Switzerland 3-0, the two reverse singles rubbers left to play on Sunday have been rendered meaningless, though the matches will go ahead although likely to be reduced to best of three sets.
Murray had played his best tennis of the year in beating Federer to win the Toronto Masters in August, and with a 7-5 career record in his favour he has repeatedly proved that the Swiss star's game is one he can counter over the best of three sets.
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The Academy gives the Best Picture statue to the winner of Best Director three-fourths of the time.
Maybe traveling to Minnesota State-Mankato for the best-of-three series that starts Friday was the best of the options remaining for UNO.
Now even the highest level recreational skiers can get the best of all three without any sacrifices at all.
Lotus were the best of the three new teams last season but were about four seconds off the pace of the front-runners.
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Pakistan spent the best part of three days reaching 407-9 declared.
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This could be why Google is expected to launch an Androidbook: to provide consumers with the best of all three worlds (low price, Android apps and a familiar touch interface).
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"When we saw the forecast it seemed like this was probably the best of the three courses to be at, but that was about as brutal as I've ever seen the back nine play, " he said.
Whether confessing that important piece of information to either my colleagues urging me to join in a game of high-stakes poker or to my father in a best-of-three pool match down the pub, I can honestly say that I have saved both a fair amount of embarrassment and incalculable amounts of money by putting my cards on the table at the outset.
All three left Fairchild Industries to found Intel, and Grove, the best known of the three, was CEO from day one.
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Around 80 entrants, often in teams of two to four, vie for the title of Best Beef Roast in one of three divisions based on personal roasting experience -- first-year roasters in the Rare Division, one- to nine-year roasters in the Seasoned Division and 10-year veterans in the Well Done Division -- by using just the right combination of spices, herbs and sauces to wow the judges.
And then even the scoring now, it's the best two out of three, there are three periods.
Milton Keynes, the best performing of the three, is almost exactly half way between London and Birmingham.
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The best player of the three rounds wins, and a sample of beer is automatically dispensed via the Beercade taps.
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Mr Eves, the best placed of the three hopefuls, trails Dalton McGuinty, the Ontario Liberal leader, by 14 percentage points.
But Dhoni's men battled back to pip Sri Lanka for a place in the best-of-three finals series, going on to beat Australia 2-0.
"Nahim Khadi was the best out of the three contenders for the hot seat and I think he can solve the problems, " he said.
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The win meant Australia kept their unbeaten record against Pakistan going back to 1995, and also took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the best-of-three series.
While most analysts said Romney and Huckabee failed to score any major moments that could derail McCain's momentum, Schneider said Huckabee had the best performance of the three.
Being in a 2-2 series isn't the right time for Heat panic over now being in what amounts to a best-of-three, or Heat lament over anything that isn't going their way, Spoelstra said.
In that 2007 one-day series, England were reeling after a 5-0 thumping in the Ashes, and lost five of their first six ODIs before winning their last two group games to edge above the Kiwis and qualify for the best-of-three final against Australia.
In the category of Best Alternative Song, three contenders are equally deserving of the award.
Mr Blair reiterates ad nauseam his five best facts and three best arguments in favour of monetary union.
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