Its other sports sponsorships include being title sponsor of sailing series, the Alpari World Match Racing Tour, and being a sponsor of the famous Madison Square Garden arena in New York.

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Windsurfer Nick Dempsey and the match-racing trio of Lucy Macgregor, Nicky Muller and Ally Martin finished second in their classes.

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Benn continued his eventful match by racing to 33 off 28 balls, with the help of two sixes off Johnson, one over long-on and the other superbly struck over mid-wicket.

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Instead it was Ronaldo who settled the match, racing clear after beating the offside trap on the counterattack and unselfishly squaring the ball to Quaresma after drawing Cech out of his goal.

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Safina had started the match in blistering style by racing into a 3-0 lead before the match changed dramatically.

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But Clijsters upped the intensity in game eight to claim the decisive break and followed it up by racing to 40-0 and converting her first match point with an unreturnable serve.

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Racing games, shooters, and MMOs are certainly a great match for an iOS game controller, and Gameloft will support the peripheral with its future titles.

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The legal wrangling over the Cup has exposed the unseemly side of yacht racing, which is always lurking in the background of a sport that attracts outsize egos with pocketbooks to match.

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