Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen finished second for the third straight race, with Alonso's Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa third as most drivers chose a four-stop strategy due to ongoing problem with Pirelli's fast-degrading tires.
Van Persie was the creator with a superb pass that let in Samir Nasri, and when he lifted the ball over Gomes, Adebayor beat Alan Hutton in a straight race to poke home from almost on the goal-line.
Segolene Royal is into the final straight in the race to become the Socialist presidential candidate.
True to their originals, skiers race straight downhill without turning, reaching speeds of 45 miles an hour.
Brooklands Museum at Weybridge in Surrey wants to restore the finishing straight of the 1907 race circuit.
"I race the bike straight up fair and square, " Mr. Armstrong testified under oath in the SCA arbitration, the suit says.
That would leave the Democratic race as a straight fight between two candidates who offer a historic choice to America - the first black leader, or the first woman president.
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But the UCI is determined to pursue him for the riches he received as a result of his seven straight victories in cycling's most prestigious race, while confirming the record books will be left blank.
His breakthrough came in 1999, and he didn't stop as he reeled off seven straight wins in his sport's most prestigious race.
Stretching the analogy (perhaps to the breaking point): On a recent weekend I competed in a bicycle time-trial race of 3.35 miles, straight up the side of a mountain.
Barack Obama will close the book on the old politics of race and gender and group against group and straight against gay.
Attendance at the track fell for a third straight year from an average of 130, 000 per race to 118, 000, according to NASCAR estimates.
Just as Bahrain suits Massa, so does Turkey and the Brazilian forced his way back into the title race by turning pole position into his third straight win in Istanbul.
Thomas Leuluai's break set up the first for Hansen before, almost straight from the restart, Tomkins spotted a gap to race 80 yards to the line for the try of the match.
His training for this marathon, which also marked the 21st straight time he'd run the world-famous Boston race, did not go all that well.
If history continues, it may be harder to get a spot this year than to actually finish the race, since it has sold out for 11 straight years, despite hosting the largest field of any half-marathon in the country.
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California Rep. Duncan Hunter was bringing up the rear with 2 percent -- and, after five straight single-digit finishes, announced he was dropping out of the race.
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Clinton's supporters said she must win those two states March 4 if she is to close the gap with Obama in the delegate race and stop the momentum he has built up with 10 straight wins.
The 14-1 chance looked like he might run of steam in the final straight but battled all the way to give Murphy his third win in the race since 2000.
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It turns out all those GIFs and videos that strike us as cute and amusing are actually moving us at a much deeper level making our hearts race and our palms sweat, making us gasp and sit up straight in our chairs.
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Before he got into the straight and I said to my mother, 'We've won the race.
For the second straight year, Honda went 1-2-3 in the Chevrolet-sponsored race in the shadow of General Motors' world headquarters.
"With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and straight against gay, " Kennedy said.
In James Holland's recent book, Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the Dams, he states that "it is time to put the record straight".
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