When painting the start of the stripe at Checkpoint Charlie, a former east- west border-crossing where new building has almost entirely blotted out the past, Eberhard Diepgen, Berlin's mayor, felt obliged to calm unease by declaring that there was no intention to split the city again.

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However, she ran wide at the start of the second, leaving her 0.13 seconds behind her rival at the first checkpoint.

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