Twenty-two Gazan runners, including former Olympian, Nadar al-Masri, hoped to reach the start line.
And what can any potential competitors expect if they front up to the start line?
"When you're on that start line you're completely focussed on what you've got to do, " she said.
However, he has promised to be on the start line for the race's 30th anniversary on Sunday 19 September.
Brownlee knows exactly what he has to do to cement his place on the Hyde Park start line come 2012.
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I'd be so, so proud to be there on that start line.
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Although Le Defi was first across the start line, Victory led by 33 seconds at the first mark and extended on all subsequent legs.
Both boats sped towards the start line and crossed at the same time but the Kiwis built a 14-second lead at the top mark.
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By 08:00 BST, two hours before the first stage started, the viewing area near the start line was already packed, and further down the marina people stood patiently waiting for the teams.
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And so despite my status as a running refusenik, I found myself herded, among a crowd of far fitter, healthier, sportier types, into a pen behind the start line, part of a sea of red t-shirted runners beneath a threatening gray sky.
"The reason that I was able to start this line so early is because I'm on the show, " she says of her MTV-backed line, which she hopes to continue long after the series.
London will be the start and finish line for the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
But double-long agriculture commodity ETNs is probably where we might want to start drawing the line.
The grandstands where fans were injured are about 200 feet from the start-finish line.
He said the first of a new fleet of carriages should start using the line in 2015.
All week long they've been coming with folding chairs and newspapers, getting ready to start waiting in line for lunch at 9:30 in the morning.
But with the British title now vacant the other heavyweights can start getting into line for eliminator bouts to have a crack at the crown.
"One of the reasons we wanted to examine this now and start drawing a line is the technology keeps improving from year to year, " he adds.
For next year, there will be a completely different position for the start-finish line, so the pits and paddock will be in a completely different place.
Start with one line that shows you understand the mission, using a couple key words and phrases from the website, but then go on to make it personal.
How are we going to start drawing the line as more and more of our personal lives migrate online and thus into the vision of our employers and colleagues?
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This is just to say that entrepreneurship seems to run in the Sartore family and Ron, now-CEO of AgigA Tech, a Cypress Semiconductor (CY) Company, is keeping the Sartore family start-up line alive.
With regulars like Charlie Adam, Stephen Crainey and Matt Gilks left out, Holloway gave six players their first Premier League start in a line-up which has made only 12 top-flight starts between them this season.
Can you use an old movie line to start off your blog and draw them into your topic?
If you start to cross the line without signaling, it triggers a warning.
When companies fudge their numbers, they usually start with the top line.
Will the New York marathon start subjecting finish-line spectators to security checks?
To remedy that image, she was enlisted two years ago by Amorim to start Materia, a line of trendy products developed by Portuguese, French and Japanese designers.
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