And organisers responded by taking the unusual step of stopping the race clock after the first of eight laps through the streets of Paris because of the poor weather.
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Spectators who travel to Willow by car or shuttle bus can once again line "the chute" on Sunday afternoon to cheer on mushers as the race clock officially begins.
From Willow, where the race clock starts ticking, mushers and their dog teams will begin making their way through unforgiving wilderness toward the finish line in the old frontier town of Nome on Alaska's western coast.
As a sport, freestyle speaks to them far more than watching one skier after another race the clock down the same old slope -- Vonn or no Vonn.
Alas, JC Penney simply is in a race against the clock.
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Target Practice, which is designed to teach you about the nature of weapons, has you race against the clock while aiming to hit your competitors 30 times.
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Olympic road race champion Sanchez (Euskatel) had been just eight seconds in arrears before the race against the clock but never threatened and lost second overall to Colom.
Doing so could save time as the two chambers race to beat the clock and leave town for the Fourth of July recess at the end of the week.
Thorpe said there was nothing significant about the minute -- but after years of checking the clock following each race, Thorpe could not resist the impulse to peek at the time at the moment he made up his mind.
Her official race photos show her beneath a finish line clock that reads 4:09:29.
"I'm not saying that the human race is imminently doomed but it's also clear that the clock is ticking and time is running out in order to take action to avoid the escalating damages which could make the whole process unstoppable, " he told CNN.
The gaffes surrounding such debates have become part of the folklore of American presidential elections ever since Richard Nixon's five o'clock shadow is said to have lost him the 1960 presidential race.
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