Just outside the town, parallel to the Nevis Range Gondola, there is a large downhill mountain bike track which attracts thousands of visitors every year, including international competitors and fans.

It attracts many competitors from all across the globe and in 2011 the event celebrated its centenary year.

The showpiece 42-kilometre race attracts thousands of spectators and competitors.

In 2004 Freedom Fest added Squealin ' on the Square, a Kansas City Barbeque Society competition which attracts competitors from across the south and mid-west.

The event attracts competitors from all over the ski jumping world.

The annual race, sponsored by the Manhattan Island Foundation, attracts more than 200 competitors.

Another large relay event is the Penn Relays, which attracts over 15, 000 competitors annually on the High School, Collegiate and Professional levels, and over its three days attracts upwards of 100, 000 spectators.

Even when multiple firms in the same sector ( competitors ) cluster, there may be advantages because that cluster attracts more suppliers and customers than a single firm could alone.

Resident males tolerate the satellite birds because, although they are competitors for mating with the females, the presence of both types of male on a territory attracts additional females.

Held since 1928 it attracts competitors from all over the world.

It is held on the first Sunday of November and attracts professional competitors and amateurs from all over the world.

This race attracts 2350 competitors, with 1000 runners from overseas.

The snow statue competition, which runs once a year at mid-winter in the stadium is a famous and amusing event, which attracts spectators and competitors from all over the country.

This event, started in 1950, attracts competitors from all over the world.

The race began in 2000, attracts hundreds of competitors, and is a prominent fixture on the Sydney ocean swimming scene.

The event attracts several hundred competitors annually, and as of 2008 the record is 1: 56, set in 1998.

The National Matches, considered America's " World Series of the Shooting Sports ", attracts shooting sports competitors from all across the world to compete in matches of all multitudes.

Organised by Square Wheels bike shop, it uses the local trail network and regularly attracts over 400 competitors.

The " Pyramid race " starts at the nearby town of Gordonvale and attracts hundreds of competitors aiming to win the $ 5000 that is up for grabs.

Owned by Australian University Sport ( AUS ), the peak governing body of university sport in Australia, the Games is the flagship event on the university sporting calendar and attracts over 6, 000 competitors each year.

The LBS attracts many pros from around the world as competitors and allows amateurs of all ages and abilities to compete on the same course over the same period with the professionals.

This annual event attracts rodeo competitors and fans, and features a midway and other activities.

A fishing competition along the banks of the canal is also held every 15 August and attracts over one hundred competitors every year.

It is organised since 1977 by the Junge Union, the youth branch of Germany's two main conservative political parties, the CDU and CSU, and attracts all age groups from Abensberg and surrounding areas.

The Conference attracts fundamentalist preachers and laymen from around the country, and BJU class reunions are held at the end of the week.

Bull-fighting is part of the five-day Fêtes de Bayonne which starts on the first Wednesday of August and attracts people from across the Basque Country and beyond.

This attracts criticism from the Cambridge college masters ( John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson ).

Crete's mild climate attracts interest from northern Europeans who want a holiday home or residence on the island.

The event attracts thousands of people from all over the world.

It is the largest floorball club tournament outside of Europe, and attracts 55 + clubs from worldwide, every year.

The tournament attracts 200 + clubs every year from 20 different countries.

The event attracts amateur swimmers from all over the Canaries and Spain, and also swimming professionals such as David Meca and Maarten Van der Weijden, the paralympist Jesús Collado Alarcón who won gold medals for 100m backstroke and butterfly in Athens 2004, and Xavi Torres Ramis, the paralympic champion in Barcelona ' 92, Sydney and Atlanta.

Caribana is held in Toronto, Ontario every year and attracts over one million visitors to the region, many of whom fly all the way from Jamaica.

It attracts deposits from customers outside of the island, seeking the advantages such places offer, like reduced tax burdens.

The country attracts a large number of foreigners and foreign influences, with just under one third of the population hailing from abroad.

The pilgrimage to Mecca attracts millions of Muslims from all over the world.

This low pressure zone attracts the Tropical Maritime Airmass ( MT ) from the south Atlantic Ocean since areas of low pressures experiences inward blowing winds because winds are moving air blowing outwards from regions of high pressure to regions of low pressure.

Armitage's team attracts the attention of the Turing Police, whose job is to prevent AIs from exceeding their built-in limitations.

Stanford also houses the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a major public policy think tank that attracts visiting scholars from around the world, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is dedicated to the more specific study of international relations.

The only part of the Ny-Ålesund community that profits from such numbers of visitors is the souvenir shop which always attracts a long queue and invariably sells out of what limited stocks that it has.

Training camp at Fisher is considered one of the best in the NFL and attracts a wide range of fans from the northeast and Canada.

Sherwood attracts 500, 000 tourists annually, including many from other countries.

The Salafi movement attracts followers from various schools of fiqh, and is based on the Quran, Sunnah and the actions and sayings of the first three generations of Muslims.

The BSN program attracts students who begin as Freshmen as well as transfer students from community colleges and those with degrees from other universities.