The next pair of races is scheduled for Sunday, which means that the regatta will continue at least until Tuesday.
Tanner's wife, Kitty, is pregnant; he borrows a pair of racing pigeons to alert the nearest doctor, two hours away by horse trap.
Soon you'll want a pair of racing gloves, and then you'll go to a junkyard and find a car seat to replace your couch.
There is a reproduction of a pair of racing yachts on the wall, and a mounted Indian huntsman, with a kestrel perched on his arm.
Jimmie Johnson, coming off his victory in Sunday's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, has added a pair of races to his 2008 schedule.
But when the time came for Neubauer to woo Fangio, he did so with amenities that seem throwaways by today's professional sports standards: a hotel room with private bathroom and tub, and a nice pair of racing goggles.
The speculation which has accompanied successive events since a yacht called America won the trophy in a race around the Isle of Wight in 1851 now has another couple of weeks to run until Oracle lines up against Emirates team New Zealand for the first pair of races in the best of 17 which starts on 7 September.
He emerged with no worse than two stitches in his right elbow, a destroyed pair of racing shorts and a stiffness that did not keep him from winning the race, the weeklong Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, for the second successive year, demonstrating to his rivals in the Tour de France that he is in peak condition.
When it was over, after a second-place finish and a 16th in another pair of races sailed in cool, southerly winds that peaked at about 15 knots and ultimately fell to a mere zephyr, he had moved up a notch to sixth.
The next pair of races is scheduled for Thursday and, before being the man to throw in the towel on Tuesday, something never seen in an America's Cup, tactician John Kostecki had said: "Today is going to be a pivotal day".
