She was trailing Mary Keitany of Kenya, who had led the field from the starter's gun, running a world-record pace.

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His return to Chelsea was one of the worst-kept secrets in world football -- the English Premier League jumped the gun by announcing his reappointment Sunday before a deal has been done.

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The reason for their nerves, perhaps, was the presence of their 23-year-old teammate Xu Xin, the freewheeling young gun who has leapfrogged them both to become world No. 1 and started as the tournament's top seed.

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The New Zealand skipper Grant Dalton has sailed the Monaco-based boat Merit Cup into Auckland taking the winning gun in the fourth leg of the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.

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