As they started the bell lap, something had to happen.

The group had been reduced to three by the bell lap.

On the bell lap, he bellowed that she was half a second off the mark.

"We were into the bell lap coming down the back straight and a couple of riders in front of me collided," Crass said.

He leads his Republican rival for the mayoralty by the horse-race equivalent of 20 lengths in the bell lap.

As Powers rode the barriers yet again heading into the bell lap Johnson was pegged at 14 seconds back.

Then, just 20 meters before the start of the bell lap, Bekele rocketed to a final lap recorded under 54 seconds.

In a semifinal, Ohno stumbled on the last curve before the bell lap and failed to advance to the "A" final.

Steve Holman of the United States went to the front early, but got tangled up and fell early in the bell lap.

We've hit the bell lap, in which our mayoral candidates calibrate, recalibrate and yap until they are ready to plotz.

The portion of the race skated after the bell is rung is known as the bell lap (or laps).

Then at the bell lap or final section of the race the runner that was sitting on the other will make their move and kick with everything they have.

As the Presidential campaign entered its bell lap last week, the Justice Department began cranking up reviews of Democratic fund-raising practices.

At the bell lap, Cullen was leading out with Sanderson perfectly place on his wheel and Bullock another three wheels back; all working hard.

It just hasn’t hardened yet, it’s moving around and it will continue to move around until the bell rings for the bell lap after Labor Day.”

Favor Hamilton made a charge heading into the bell lap, but Jacobs easily followed and began a fierce kick that took her around the final lap in 57.6 seconds.

In the final, three runners were in contention at the bell lap, with Gammoudi leading Temu and another Kenyan, Kip Keino.

She hung right behind the NCAA champion and former Iowa State star, before overtaking her just before the bell lap to cruise to a five-second win.

To leave the trail at this juncture, when the bell lap is upon both Mr. Obama and his Republican rival, Senator John McCain, carries an element of risk.

He raised his hands, but Ohno said he had done so out of astonishment that he had not been able to find room to pass the South Koreans on the bell lap.

Coming at the start of Mr. Obama's second term in office, this week's State of the Union address signals his bell lap, a final race against time when presidents are said to establish their legacy.

Bannister suffered defeat, however, when Yugoslavia's Andrija Otenhajmer, aware of Bannister's final-lap kick, took a 1500 m race in Belgrade 25 August out at near-record pace, forcing Bannister to close the gap by the bell lap.

The Manxman got off to a solid start in the scratch race on Friday morning, running in sixth after using his shoulder at high speed in the back straight on the bell lap to move the defending champion, Fernando Gaviria, out of the way.

Le Corre found the pace too hot and dropped off, on the bell lap, Sharp broke free of the rest to win his first World title, whilst Billington dropped off to finish fourth leaving McNamee to outsprint Bishop for silver.

Instead, he waited until the bell lap sounded for summer to decide he was done, too late for Connecticut to search for a more credentialed replacement at a most tenuous time; not only for the program he built but for the struggling Big East Conference that has been so instrumental to Calhoun’s success.