71.   This year, one race went negative from the start.

72.   This year, though, the awards race could go in any one of a half-dozen directions.

73.   This race is going to be dandy.

74.   Underneath Williamsburg, another race was going on.

75.   Until Friday, the race was going to be won by the candidate the voters disliked least.

76.   Within the hour, as the race went on, flags near the start-finish line were lowered to half staff.

77.   Race four went off late in the afternoon.

78.   A year ago, a highly controversial race went to Cambridge.

79.   AC Milan and Ajax have already clinched the championships in Italy and the Netherlands but the title race goes in in Germany.

80.   Any doubts about whether the race would go ahead this year were erased a week after the terrorist attacks.