Rush asked the question as if his old rival was right in front of him.

In the cup, the team reached the final for the fourth time where they met old rivals 1.

And those it was losing didn't seem to be going to its old rivals.

They go back far, these old rivals, all the way to the founding of the state in 1948.

Clearly she enjoyed the chance to challenge an old rival.

It was the first time that he had not anticipated his old rival's next move.

The next week will decide if the old rivals are running on a collision course again.

These two old rivals have long been at odds, of course, often violently.

She quickly opened up a lead of a hundred yards over her older rival, and won without being challenged.

But there may never have been a more competitive encounter between those two old rivals.