Mathews had beaten Gary McArthur by stoppage in the quarters and then engaged in a grueling contest with Choi Tseveenpurev in the semis to book his place in the final.

It was her third consecutive victory in the grueling contest, something no one else has accomplished since the race was first run in 1973.

I received news that there had been a grueling contest of status among the foreign Demons, with Andromeda raiding Fornax and forcing its Demon to flee.

In its second year, this grueling contest runs laps around an older one, the 1,000-mile annual race that Sri Chinmoy, the spiritual guru, first staged in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in 1985.

Walsh defeated his co-challenger for the belt, the Ghanaian Maxwell Awuku who had had a record of 20 wins and one defeat before that fight, over the full 12 rounds in a grueling contest.

Another grueling contest came at the breakfast table.

He was one of only 13 birds out of 1,200 in the Viola Futurity, a grueling 350-mile contest that was disrupted by cloud cover and solar flares, to finish on the day they started.

It must be the most grueling contest that ever existed, an exhausting demonstration of both physical and intellectual skills.

In a grueling contest for control of Nassau's government, the Republicans are struggling to hang on to the county executive's post and to recapture the Legislature.

That message, of course, was all but smothered yesterday, one of the few days in this grueling contest on which an unanticipated story dominated the political news cycles.