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...just beginning to relax and enjoy my drink when the plane lurched violently up and to the right, causing the man next to me to dump his Bloody Mary in my lap. I did not have time to scream or react in any way before the plane jerked down to the left, causing a stewardess to fall across the row of seats in front...
...promotion hasn't been exactly tame: horses, helicopters, even parachutists descending from the skies onto the banks of the Thames with bottles of Beaujolais lashed to their plummeting bodies. A well-greased media lap it up every time...
Five cyclists broke ahead of the pack after the first of the race's seven laps but by the completion of the third lap, Berggren and Benoit were all alone at the head of the field...
...Once Anne and I got away from the pack, I started thinking about how I could beat her in the sprint at the end of the course," Berggren said. "The second to last lap I was thinking where to make my move...
...When you're racing, when you're riding with someone, if you've managed to break away, it's like you're teammates. You work together a lot," Berggren said. "In the last lap, though, you hate each other. But then after the race, you're friends again. Ann's beaten me twice. Now we're even...