For a handful of top-notch athletes, including Lagat and fellow U.S. Olympians Matthew Centrowitz and Leo Manzano, Saturday's race will mark the end of a taxing year of competition.
In fact, Virginia Republicans have not won a statewide race since Mark Warner, a former mobile phone company executive, captured the governorship for the Democrats in 2001 by emphasizing economic growth.
The 2011 season came to an end at last Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix, with Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel finishing the race second behind teammate Mark Webber having already sealed a second consecutive championship.
Ciara Sheehy's time of 24.04 was over a second outside the 200m mark in a race won by South Africa's Olympic 400m finalist Heide Seyerling in 23.68.
"It leaves a question mark over this race, and we won't have the final answer until the votes are counted, " said David Gergen, a senior political analyst for CNN.
"We are delighted there have been no fatalities in today's big race, " Dr. Mark Kennedy from the World Society for the Protection of Animals told CNN on Saturday .
Four prominent Democrats have raised millions of dollars for the mayor's race: city Public Advocate Mark Green, city Comptroller Alan Hevesi, city council President Peter Vallone, and Bronx Borough President Ferdinand Ferrer.
The Tour of Britain last visited Drumlanrig Castle in 2008, when Edvald Boasson Hagen won, while Dumfries has hosted stage finishes in the past two editions of the race, both won by Mark Cavendish.
Bloomberg, a media mogul who pumped tens of millions of dollars of his own money into the race, defeated Democratic challenger Mark Green, a long-time fixture in city politics, in a close vote, to succeed Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
Red Bull's Mark Webber won the race with BMW's Robert Kubica finishing second.
Lemon came home ahead of Elliott and Mark Lunney in 125cc race one Elliott was first, Lunney second and Andrew Pollock third in the next race.
In Virginia, Democrat Mark Warner, a wealthy venture capitalist who narrowly lost a race for the U.S. Senate in 1996, defeated Republican Mark Earley, a former state attorney general.
Rossi celebrated after the race by donning a mortar board to mark the honorary degree he received from the University of Urbino earlier in the week.
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Three times this season, a Red Bull car has been undone by a faulty alternator, including last weekend when it forced Mark Webber out of the race.
And as the young guns get steadily quicker, the pressure is on the 31-year-old to make his mark in this year's race.
The sun came out, briefly and the chat amongst the crowd was that British athletes were doing an "amazing" job at the Games, but it was a disappointment to see Mark Cavendish beaten in the road race, Paula pull out of the marathon, Yamauchi pull up here.
However, the FIA added that drivers managed by Briatore would be granted 2010 F1 licences, which will be a relief to Red Bull's Mark Webber, a two-time race-winner in 2009.
The race is between Councilman Greg Nickels and city attorney Mark Sidran, both Democrats, though Sidran has been blasted in some quarters as leaning too far to the right for many in this left-leaning city.
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And so we have declared Mark Begich the winner in that Alaska Senate race.
Stapleton has high hopes that his star rider Mark Cavendish of Britain will be in the race leader's pink jersey after the first three stages.
That makes it very difficult, given the tight race, for either top candidate to reach the 50 percent mark needed to win outright.
The Japanese was handed a 10-place grid penalty for next weekend's Malaysian race for his role in tangles with Red Bull's Mark Webber at the start and BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica nine laps from the end.
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If the race finishes as it starts then third place will be enough for McLaren's Lewis Hamilton to hang on to his lead in the title race (124 pts) from the two Red Bulls of Mark Webber (121 pts) and pole-sitter Sebastian Vettel (115pts).
Hamilton could only qualify in fifth at Monza, while Red Bull's Mark Webber, who is second in the title race, put three torrid practice session behind him to post the fourth quickest time, although both drivers were around half a second off the pace.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button were fourth and fifth and Red Bull's Mark Webber sixth, heightening hopes for a close, competitive race.
With 1, 086 delegates secured as he entered the Texas race, Mr Romney only needed 58 to pass the 1, 144 mark, and he won 69% of the vote.
In Ohio, the Mark Foley scandal may be having an impact on an important Congressional race.
Armitstead's performance was a welcome boost for home fans after the bitter disappointment of Mark Cavendish's failure to win the men's road race Saturday.
Bullimore, 67, who survived five days trapped in his capsized yacht during a 1997 ocean race, wants to shave a day off MacArthur's 71-day mark.
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