With Julia Child and Larousse leading the shortcrust charge, ranged against the might of Raymond Blanc and Britain's finest pastry chef, Claire Clark, formerly of the French Laundry, in the puff camp, this was going to be a keenly contested battle.
"The more I kind of listen, I think there is going to be a lot of contested races for delegates.
But it is surely going to be a closely and bitterly contested one.
"It's still being contested and there's going to be a trial," added Froome.
As to the circumstances of Mr. Turan's departure and whether he should be formally fired, Mr. Gottlieb said "those issues will probably be left for litigation" with Mr. Turan, which he predicted is "going to be hotly contested".
That's going to be hotly contested by the industry, but I hope the commission supports it.
"Obviously, this is an election that's going to be very tightly contested," said State Senator Bernard F. Kenny Jr., the Democratic committee chairman in Hudson County.
FROM the moment the trial began, on Aug. 1, it was clear that even minute details were going to be contested.
Ellison and his rival Ernesto Bertarelli had been locked in court since July 2007, and for a while it seemed as if the result of this race was going to be contested off the water.
When it became clear that it was going to be contested in 72-foot catamarans, it seemed as if France, with its long-established taste for multihulls, finally might play a central role in a sport historically dominated by English-speaking nations.
