"He is not in the right condition to contest a match of the intensity of a quarter-final, " Ruiz-Cotorro explained.
Brazil, with Dani Alves superb on the right of midfield, gave Chile no room to breathe and gradually took control of the contest.
Mauresmo held serve for the first time and then had three break points on the Safina serve - converting the last of them to get right back into the contest.
Helped by the fact that nobody in his right mind could contemplate the purgatory of another leadership contest before the next election, the Lib Dems put on a decent show of unity at their party conference in September.
So when one of the titans quit the contest last Friday, all the gas went out of the race, right?
And besides, this weekend Chevy is right in the middle of sponsorship of a huge athletic contest whose global audience could far exceed that of the Super Bowl.
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Surely the lesser candidates lining up to run in the first round, in April, of the two-round contest have the right to dream.
Traditionally, this is a pretty conservative affair, and it may be something of a beauty contest for the candidates on the right.
That almost happened in the dying seconds of what ended up as an absorbing end-to-end contest but Pantelic smashed a cross from the right wide of the target.
The liberal Union of Right Forces Party, which did not qualify for seats, said it will contest the results in court.
The 34-year-old Ellis was clearly out of his depth as Maccarinelli smashed a right hand through his guard and finished the contest with another left to the body.
Ohlsson came into our studio right after we'd spent some time talking about a very different sort of musical contest: the recent history of Super Bowl halftime shows.
However, the complexion of the contest changed irreversibly when Cahill brilliantly headed Australia in front from a right-wing cross.
Tate thought the fair result was a share of the spoils but he was full of praise for the way Bellamy imposed himself on the contest just at the right moment.
However, the Scarlets should have been right back in the contest three minutes later when McCusker embarrassingly knocked on two yards short of the Leinster line after he had charged down Shaun Berne's casual clearance.
We know we're way overdue for the results of the Engadget photo contest, but we wanted to make sure it was done right.
Anyone who has played a pick-up basketball knows what it's like when the old guys in the short-shorts and knee braces show up at the gym they may not run up and down the court like 19-year-olds, but they're going to play defense, box everyone out, contest every layup, look for the right shot and make the whole court stink of liniment.
But the MDC says that the result of the parliamentary contest, which it won by a slim margin, gives it the right to form a government.
What is more, while they agreed not to disparage the settlement publicly, each reserved the right to contest regulators' findings during legal proceedings and securities arbitrations, a record 1, 463 of which were filed in the first two months of the year.
Mr Bakhit has branded the IAF's boycott of the local elections as illegal, and this could serve as grounds for action to contest its right to continue to operate as a political party.
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