The competitive part of the race began the following day in Willow 50 miles to the north.
The race began after a moment of silence for the Boston victims, and many wore black armbands as a sign of solidarity.
The first stirrings of Obama's momentum were visible before the race began, but no campaign could have predicted his rapid, seemingly unstoppable rise.
Once the race began, he was a ruthless competitor (some preferred the term "dirty") who never seemed to go at less than his upper limit.
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With the United States having been disqualified in the semi-final, the Jamaicans began the race as hot favourites.
The race then began with a 60-foot rappel down a knob of rock sticking out into the Pacific Ocean.
The world champion began the race on pole, but immediately dropped to fourth as Capirossi made a flying start.
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As the senior race started and began to climb Pleinmont hill it was clear that the Guernsey riders wanted to make an impact on the race attacked their Jersey counterparts in an attempt to get riders away before finally Tony Bleasdale managed to break away from the group.
Riders on horseback compete against runners in the race, which began after a pub discussion over who would win a marathon between man and horse.
The race, which began inauspiciously with eight runners in 2004, takes its name from the ancient Greeks from Sparta who emphasized physical training and discipline.
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"This is my 13th year, and I've wanted to win every year, " she said before the race, which began March 2 with 66 teams at a ceremonial start in Anchorage.
Immediately after the 2012 presidential race was called, pundits began to offer the conclusions and lessons the electorate should take from the race.
"We have reason to believe the gentleman suffered from a massive cardiac event as he entered the water and began the swim, " race director Bill Burke said in a statement.
My son Joshua and I were out for a morning walk along the beach in front of my home when suddenly the sea began to race in.
Mr Santorum began the race in Ohio with a big lead in the opinion polls, but Mr Romney's well-funded political machine overcame him in part through a heavy campaign of attack adverts.
Since we began polling the race, Romney has consistently been behind candidates favored by the now dominant Tea Party Republican voters.
He had described Iowa as a must-win contest for him to continue in the 2004 race for the White House and just before the caucuses began, Gephardt predicted he would win.
The 360-nautical mile Dubai-Muscat Offshore Sailing Race began on 26 November and ended two days later in the Omani capital's Bandar Al-Rawdah marina.
Bowles, a wealthy investment banker, began the general election race with several challenges.
Smith was never in serious contention, having started the race from seventh spot, while Simon began on pole.
He quietly began preparation for the 2012 race, mostly staying out of the public limelight for a couple of years.
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Manchester United's victory lap through the end of the season began Sunday with a 1-1 draw at Arsenal that once again shook up the race for the last two Champions League qualification spots.
Coyle, his co-author, said that when he first began talking to Hamilton for "The Secret Race, " Hamilton's answers came so slowly he could transcribe every word and comma easily, by hand, with no abbreviations.
Webber's race began badly when he got away from the front row slowly and was passed by Rubens Barrichello, Juan Pablo Montoya, Kimi Raikkonen and Jarno Trulli on the run down to the first corner.
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Its evil evolution began with the forced registration-by-race of everyone in the country, soon followed by the division of every town and city into areas in which only those of a particular race could legally reside.
He began by noting progress in race relations since the first decade of the 20th century when the NAACP was founded.
Once the US exposed its nuclear arsenal, however, the Soviet Union's race to acquire nuclear weapons of its own began.
In 1930, Britain, U.S., France, Italy and Japan began the London Naval Conference, aimed at halting the arms race and preventing war.
Runners began streaming into the BAA offices mid-morning Wednesday, some wearing their race bibs.
Radcliffe, competing in her first race for 21 months, began at a good pace and kept up with Goucher for the first six miles but the American then broke free.
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