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Mr. Sarkozy's rivals criticized the meeting as political grandstanding, but his main challengers, the Socialist nominee, François Hollande, and the far-right National Front candidate, Marine Le Pen, have both spent time campaigning among the unemployed.

But for the next four hours, Froome demonstrated just how much he has grown as a rider in the last two seasons, and when he rolled into Bagneres-de-Bigorre with his main challengers the danger was not just averted, it was winked at.

Now the person with that confidence is Webb's main challenger, the world champion Bernard Lagat.

It is only on issues related to security that he outpolls his main challenger, the Socialist candidate, François Hollande, whose focus has been on the economy.

Both Mr. Mugabe's party, ZANU-PF, and its main challenger, the Movement for Democratic Change, are using Twitter and Facebook to get out news.

Tsipras's Syriza has been shown to be neck and neck with its main challenger, the conservative New Democracy, quashing hopes of an easy victory.

This election "is very, very touchy," he said, and there is little affection for Mr. Milosevic's main challenger, the Serbian opposition candidate, Vojislav Kostunica.

Himachal Pradesh, a small, hilly state in northern India, seems poised to oust its Bharatiya Janata Party government, with its main challenger, the Congress party, leading in more than half of the state's 68 constituencies.

Millions of Iranians remain incensed by what they see as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's fraudulent victory over his main challenger, the reformist Mir Hosein Mousavi, in the election of June 12th.

He appears to be running neck and neck with his main challenger, the Socialist candidate François Hollande, in the first round of voting on Sunday, when 10 candidates are competing.

In a three-way race Blanche Lincoln, a Democratic centrist and sitting senator, failed to collect enough votes to avoid having to confront her main challenger, the state's lieutenant-governor, Bill Halter, in a run-off next month.