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COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY DONALD MIRALLE/GETTY IMAGES Water Gait Julie Galloway of the Cypress Fairbanks swim club of Cypress, Texas, shoulders on during a preliminary heat of the women's 400-meter IM at the nationals in Minneapolis.

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY ADAM PRETTY/GETTY IMAGES Overdrive A helicopter offers an advantageous vantage for watching an elongated pack during NASCAR's Food City 500 at the Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY JULIAN HERBERT/GETTY IMAGES Backfields in Motion Riders and mounts butt heads during the opening race of the English flat racing season, at Doncaster Racecourse.