Perhaps the timing of the announcement suggested someone, somwhere had spotted an early opportunity to set a test - or is that trap - for the former Rural Affairs Minister, Elin Jones, had she won the Plaid Cymru leadership.
She had won the last three marathons she had run before Sunday.
The human resources representative, who said she had never won anything in her life, admitted she was shocked when she found out she won the prize.
She also said that the wait to see if she had won the pole was made more agonizing because she had gone to work out as other drivers went one by one, trying to best her top lap.
She served underarm to save a match point and as soon as Graf had won she ran from the court to the jeers of the Paris crowd.
In a 2001 interview with the BBC, after she had won the WHSmith Book Award for fiction, Binchy described the five rejections she received for her first novel as "a slap in the face".
Ophthalmic Women Leaders announced in 2012 that she had won the organization's Visionary Woman Award.
As soon as she had won New Hampshire, they started targeting absentee voters, particularly women.
The artist admitted to being a bit shocked on hearing she had won the prize.
On hearing she had won, Shaw leapt into the arms of skating partner Matt Evers, laughing in disbelief.
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She realised she had won after watching Wednesday's lottery draw live on TV.
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Adlington, 23, who lost her title to Camille Muffat of France, said she was glad she had won a medal at a home games.
The Belgian, 27, retired on the eve of the 2008 French Open, a tournament she had won four times along with two US crowns and one Australian Open.
Swimmer Rebecca Adlington grabbed two bronze medals in the 400-meter and 800-meter events, but she had won gold in those events four years previously and was favored for repeat victories.
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And so the caller broke the Nobel committee's iron-clad rules of secrecy: in fact, he confessed, he was trying to find Dr Buck to tell her that she had won the Nobel prize.
Peacetime brought the return of Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece, a handsome young naval officer who had, by all accounts, had won her heart when she was just 13.
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If Mr Gore had won, she might have run for the Senate in 2002.
She had majored in psychology and won a research fellowship at Berkeley, though she gave it up when her boyfriend felt overshadowed.
Having had relatively few roles since she won the Best Actress statue in 1980 for Coal Miner's Daughter, the Academy will want to give her a warm welcome back for her icy portrayal of a bitter, stoic matriarch.
She had last performed at the MTV Europe awards in 1998 when she won best female and best album for "Ray of Light".
One Cofetel official said she felt like Mexico had just won a World Cup soccer game.
Yates even expected to be executed, Resnick said, and her death would fulfill her delusional prophecy, as she believed Satan already had won the battle for her soul.
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Even though she had applied for a green card some time back, she says officials won't let her into the United States until she has it "in hand, " a process that could take up to a year.
An extraordinary, somewhat headstrong, woman who lived most of her adult life in Indonesia, she probably could have won a Nobel Peace Price for her work in microcredit, if she had been better known.
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The 22-year-old had become a star in the Dominican Republic after she won the final "Latin American Idol" contest in 2009.
Sharapova had already won the other three majors, so she could hardly be classified as an outsider, no matter her distaste for clay.
Had she lived, I truly believe that she might have won, as did her fellow social entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize.
She was a drifter, moving in a miasma of angry despair in and out of speakeasies and other people's beds because her father had refused to let her go to college, even though she'd won a full scholarship to Sarah Lawrence, and even though he would certainly have let her brother go.
She said the Greens, who won two MEPs in 2004, had proved themselves capable enough to make further gains.
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