Likewise, time spent watching sport was time not spent shopping online.
Some were probably watching Olympic sport for the first time during those Games but when they see Paralympic sport for the first time they are going to be blown away by it.
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Shopping is nothing short of a recreational sport this time of the year.
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Hingis, a five-time Grand Slam champion and former Wimbledon winner, announced her retirement from the sport at the time the allegations emerged.
"The rivers are at their best for white water sport at this time of year, " he said.
An unexpected extra is the availability of David Atkinson who is an experienced international, but has been away from the sport for some time, living as he does in the Bristol area.
He is unlikely to return to the sport full-time in the near future as he is about to row to the Caribbean with TV presenter Ben Fogle in Chay Blyth's Atlantic Yachting Race.
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But there is no clear top player in the sport for the first time in 13 years.
In addition, it will also showcase the new LS 600h F Sport for the first time in Europe.
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We are going to lose a special player out of our team and our sport for quite some time.
The football family need to hold together in sport at this difficult time.
"One-off wins are not how we measure things, that's not what we're about, " Hore told BBC Sport Wales at the time.
But over time the sport migrated south where high school football and SEC football are now huge parts of the culture.
The network dedicated an unprecedented amount of air time to the sport on Saturday and Sunday.
The switch comes at a time when the sport is stepping up its efforts to go green.
Prices did sport moderate gains for a time Tuesday, with April gold hitting a fresh two-week high.
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"This is a crucial time for our sport, " said PRA boss Damian Hopley.
"It is a long time out of sport, particularly for a guy who loves playing at the top level, " Waugh said.
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Because of this strategy, there are currently question marks over the future of more teams than at any other time in the sport's history.
Gold bulls were impressed that the U.S. dollar index traded sharply higher on the day Thursday, while for a time gold did sport modest price gains.
Most of the time, the stopped sport goes on to greater and greater revenues.
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He went into a steep decline, lubricated by the bottle, and spent time out of the sport.
"The credibility of the sport is at an all-time low, " Chris Keyes, editor of Outside magazine said.
He's trying to become just the third four-time champion in a sport that's been crowning champions since 1928.
Hakkinen admitted that he had become too aware of the risks in the sport and wanted to spend more time with his family.
Shin and the other kids return to the tables for two more hours of practice, following their dreams in China's national sport, one shot at a time.
During the last summer games, NBC devoted a hefty slice of their 272 prime-time hours to the sport, pumping up the drama of Michael Phelps last games, and so on.
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But Brawn could still be back at Ferrari in 2007 after his time out from the sport and has said he will have talks in the middle of next year with Todt and di Montezemolo.
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The highlights of my time working with the sport so far have been the 2009 Triathlon World Championships held on the Gold Coast, Australia, which was fantastic for the team as they won five medals overall.
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