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American adventurer Steve Fossett yesterday set off in a bid to break the sailing record for the fastest crossing from Newport to Bermuda.
Fossett left Rhode Island in his yacht Lakota at 12.25 p.m. Bermuda time, with Jean-Pierre Mouligne's record ti...
DATE: Jun 03, 1999
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Young Bermudian tennis players will flock to Atlanta in July in a bid to make their mark at a prestigious tournament.
Seventeen youngsters, who make up the cream of the Island's junior tennis, will fly to the US to take part in the Georgia State Open...
DATE: May 28, 1999
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Bermuda's top cyclist Elliot Hubbard set a new course record as he cruised to his first victory of his professional season in the US.
On a 105-mile course suited to his hill-climbing strengths, Hubbard became the first man to break five hours in the ...
DATE: May 26, 1999
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Teenager Craig Bean denied veteran Wilf Gonzalves an unprecedented semi-final triple at the Heineken Open yesterday.
Gonzalves, 45, had already booked his place in the semi-finals of both the men's A and senior competitions before losing in straight ...
DATE: May 21, 1999
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Six former winners will be among a strong field for Monday's Heritage Day Cycling Classic.
And this year's Somerset-to-Hamilton race will be a poignant occasion, as it will be known by a new title, the Sinclair Packwood Memorial Race.
Packwood, who d...
DATE: May 20, 1999
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Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race.
For the first time in the 22-year history of the biennial race organisers have split competitors into two classes -- celestial and electronic navigation.
The indications are that many veterans of the race are sticking wit...
DATE: May 20, 1999
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Marathon Derby, but she is taking nothing for granted.
The form book, as well as some of her leading opponents, suggest that Eatherley will claim her second May 24 victory after a year of uninterrupted success on the road-running circuit.
Last Sunday...
DATE: May 19, 1999
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Wright to pull out of this year's big race -- now less than a week away.
And that should leave pre-race favourite Kavin Smith, who didn't run last year, an even clearer path to claim his fifth victory since 1993.
Wright, who won the Somerset to Hamil...
DATE: May 18, 1999
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the points for a postponed game against his team.
And now he is to protest in writing to Bermuda Cricket Board of Control over a decision which he feels is unwarranted and has dealt a major blow to Stars' title hopes.
Stars were due to host the clash...
DATE: May 14, 1999
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Top runners in the May 24 Marathon Derby have been given a $5,000 incentive to shatter the race records.
Sports R Us are offering the sum to the first male and female athletes to finish inside tough times set by the sponsors.
But to pocket the cash, ...
DATE: May 12, 1999
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