"MasterChef" is an exception, the first clear-cut success story for summer reality since "Wipeout," the obstacle-course contest that ABC introduced in 2008.
With so much emphasis placed on the Olympic cycle, athletes could have been forgiven for taking a sabbatical but the short-course contest offers a chance for swimmers to exchange 50 metres for 25m and race in the faster format.
The Americans won 11 of the 14 events to lead the European team by 89-33 athehalfwayway point of the short-course contest at the Manchester Aquatics Centre.
Ascot's showpiece remains a top class contest, of course, but there is no getting away from the feeling that it is not the race it should have been.
Of course, the contest is not over yet.
For Villas-Boas, of course, the contest against Chelsea was a challenge on a professional and personal level.
Russia, mindful that it trails the United States in many measures, tends to leap at any chance to promote its supremacy, and when it comes to wintry hardiness, there is, of course, no contest.
With only one pair left on the course, the contest was level at 15½-15½ 15½-15½
Unless, of course, those contests give us greater insight into the future of the cosmos.
Redstone, who has not appeared at his companies' annual shareholder meetings or spoken on investor calls since 2014, underwent a compulsory medical examination of his mental competency in the course of contesting Herzer's lawsuit; only then did he relinquish his chairmanship of Viacom and CBS.
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