The U.S. ran without top 400-meter runner LaShawn Merritt, who pulled out of the Olympics during qualifying rounds last week.
Morgan Uceny was the top-ranked 1, 500-meter runner last year, though she'll have her hands full against two strong runners from Ethiopia.
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Bangor, meanwhile, have lost striker Marc Lloyd-Williams - last season's top scorer in the League of Wales and runner-up in Europe's Golden Shoe table of goal scorers - to Nationwide Conference side Southport.
Casey has four top-10 finishes to his name this season and was runner-up to Ian Poulter in the World Golf Championship Match Play event in February.
If he can solve the Russia problem for Deere, Lane could well be a front-runner for the top job.
Showing up for his first practice in jeans and boots, he nearly beat the team's top runner in a five-mile race.
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Serbian top-seed Novak Djokovic made a successful return to action following his runner-up finish at the US Open, kicking off the defence of his title with a 6-1 6-3 win over home favourite Gong Maoxin.
Should South Africa finish top of their group, the runner-up would qualify for the 2010 World Cup.
Former Tottenham Hotspur and Leeds United assistant manager Gus Poyet - the ex-Uruguay and Chelsea midfielder who is currently out of work - has also emerged as a front-runner for the Liberty Stadium top job.
The GOP race has also changed since Giuliani was the front-runner, as concerns about the economy top the worries of Republican voters.
In the vote for the Heisman Trophy, given to college football's top player of any given season, Te'o was the runner-up.
In the men's 100m, Ghana's Aziz Zakari , winner in Paris and runner-up three weeks ago in Rome, returned to top form.
Ganguly, who posted his 71st ODI half century before trying to hit over the top only to find extra-cover, was all set to return as a runner.
He has slipped to No. 79, but a win Sunday would take care of that, and runner-up alone at least should get him into the top 50 and earn a spot at Doral next week.
Welsh number one and Wales Open runner-up Davies, the new world number 45 after successive top-two finishes, had already qualified for his second Open Championship.
After a disappointing season, Higginson returned to form as a top break of 107 helped him set up a second round meeting with Masters runner-up Stephen Lee.
Huckabee went on to best former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, by then the GOP front-runner, in the Iowa caucuses January 3, placing him among the top tier of Republican hopefuls.
He was a runner-up in Bravo's TV cooking show competition, "Top Chef: All-Stars" in 2010.
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The top 10 was completed by Brawn's Rubens Barrichello, who himself has designs on finishing runner-up to his team-mate, with Williams' Nico Rosberg ninth and Kimi Raikkonen in his Ferrari 10th.
Fowler, who was the world's top amateur for 36 weeks, lost a playoff in his second tournament as a professional and has been runner-up three times on the main U.S. tour.
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