The final duel was between two girls.

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There has been a huge build-up to the event, billed variously by newspapers as The Last Duel and The Final Confrontation.

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The final was billed as a strikers' duel but both Egypt's Hossam Hassan and Benni McCarthy of South Africa were marked out of the game.

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Mr Rutte and Mr Samsom had turned the final three weeks of the campaign into a political duel.

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