11.   While soccer superpowers Germany and Brazil met later in Stuttgart in another warmup game the teams supposed to be their nearest challengers were looking far from it.

12.   Her nearest challenger now is another Swede, Maria Hjorth.

13.   Blackburn Rovers shot further ahead in the English Premiership on Saturday as their nearest challengers had a mixed day.

14.   Their nearest challengers, Warren Schutte and Ian Palmer, were another five shots back.

15.   Shortly after his victory was formally announced, his nearest challenger, Horacio Serpa of the Liberal Party, conceded defeat.

16.   The OSCE, which is supervising the elections, released results showing all three main candidates with very similar results, all were comfortably leading their nearest challengers.