Bud Selig also did not attend the San Francisco Giants ' baseball game on August 7 when Barry Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th home run ; after the event, Selig released a statement congratulating Bonds.

* Introduction of instant replay in the event of a disputed home run call ( 2008 )

Although historically inaccurate, the legend of the Greek messenger Pheidippides running to Athens with news of the victory became the inspiration for this athletic event, introduced at the 1896 Athens Olympics, and originally run between Marathon and Athens.

Paris – Brest – Paris ( PBP ), which began in 1891, is the oldest bicycling event still run on a regular basis on the open road, covers over and imposes a 90-hour time limit.

They also run the Great British Beer Festival, a yearly event held in London at which a large selection of cask ales and ciders are tasted.

Another common workaround is to run GLUT's event loop in a separate thread, although this may vary by operating system, and also may introduce synchronization issues or other problems: for example, the Mac OS X GLUT implementation requires that be run in the main thread.

In the confidence model, some event, or series of events, such as defeats in battle, or a run on stocks of the specie which back a currency, removes the belief that the authority issuing the money will remain solvent — whether a bank or a government.

In such systems, a given type of event ( such as the dice yielding a six ) tends to occur at a persistent rate, or " relative frequency ", in a long run of trials.

* In the first major sporting event in New York City since the attack, a baseball game at Shea Stadium, the New York Mets ' Mike Piazza hits a two-run, game-winning home run in the bottom of the eighth inning against the Atlanta Braves to defeat the Braves, 3-2.

The sprint or match sprint is a track cycling event involving between two and four riders, though they are usually run as a one-on-one match race between opponents who, unlike in the individual pursuit, start next to each other.

The first modern swim / bike / run event to be called a ' triathlon ' was held at Mission Bay, San Diego, California on September 25, 1974.

This event was run by Andrew Vaughan, the coach of the largest Junior team currently in the UK, Arctic Ultimate.

The conventions themselves are run by non-profit, volunteer fan organizations, who bid to host the event.

The All-Ireland Senior Championship is run as a knock-out competition, with the top two counties meeting in the All-Ireland Football Final, considered the most prestigious event in Gaelic football.

There is also a " Super Combined " event that includes one downhill run and one slalom run in a single day.

In 2004, the FIS ( Fédération Internationale de Ski ) introduced a new event to the World Cup calendar called the super combined, or super combi, consisting of one shortened downhill run and just one slalom run.

Race Officials include the Chief of Race, chief of course, starters, timers, gate judges, referees, a jury and others who organize the event and ensure it is run safely and according to governing body rules.

But it is certain that though Paul II opposed the humanists, he was the best in providing for popular amusements: in 1466 he permitted the horse-race that was a feature of Carnival to be run along the main street, the Via Lata, which now became known from this annual event as the Via del Corso.

Most of these fly reels also feature large-arbor spools designed to reduce line memory, maintain consistent drag and assist the quick retrieval of slack line in the event a hooked fish makes a sudden run towards the angler.

The event was first run on 29 March 1981 and has been held in the spring of every year since.

Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.

If we have not thought and made a decision entirely in these terms, then we need to submit ourselves to the following `` simple test '': `` Have we decided how we are to kill the other members of our household in the event of our being less injured than they are ''??

Run entirely by unpaid volunteers this was the largest event of its type in the UK with 55, 000 visitors in 2007.

In the case of a black hole, the insight was that the informational content of all the objects which have fallen into the hole can be entirely contained in surface fluctuations of the event horizon.

Thus two people can view the same event and come away with entirely different perceptions of it, even disagreeing about simple facts.

In the event the phobia cannot be avoided entirely, the sufferer will endure the situation or object with marked distress and significant interference in social or occupational activities.

This debate is relevant because it is easy to imagine specific situations in which the arrival of an electron at a screen at a certain point and time would trigger one event, whereas its arrival at another point would trigger an entirely different event ( e. g. see Schrödinger's cat-a thought experiment used as part of a deeper debate ).

Before the scattering event, the electron is treated as sufficiently close to being at rest that its total energy consists entirely of the mass-energy equivalence of its rest mass:

Originally E3 was almost entirely dominated by print games journalists, the event eventually came to include general and specialist TV crews, newspaper journalists, website journalists.

) Although Brunschvicg tried to classify the posthumous fragments according to themes, recent research has prompted Sellier to choose entirely different classifications, as Pascal often examined the same event or example through many different lenses.

The protestors had tried to persuade the venue ( the student's union ) to ban the event entirely.

It is uncommon for gymnasts to use more than one different FX routine in the same season but it is not entirely unheard of: at the 1996 Olympics, for instance, Russian Dina Kotchetkova's routine in the FX event finals had completely different music, choreography and composition than that of her all-around exercise.

A 24-hour television station was dedicated entirely to the event.

The king had no option but to return to captivity — the English chronicler Henry Knighton wrote of the event: < div style = " font-size: 90 %;">< span style =" color :# eee ;"></ span > ... the Scots refused to have their King unless he entirely renounced the influence of the English, and similarly refused to submit themselves to them.

Though the actual end of the shogunate and establishment of an Imperial government following Western modes was handled entirely peacefully, through political petitions and the like, the years surrounding the event were not an entirely bloodless revolution.

Due to a scheduling conflict with the IndyCar Series ' Motegi event, the Long Beach race was held on April 20, 2008 as an IRL points-paying event using the CCWS-spec DP01 cars, and was contested entirely by CCWS teams.

An American folk event, Sadie Hawkins Day is a pseudo-holiday entirely created within the strip.

This event shows an early – if not entirely novel – effective use of the longbow against cavalry, a tactic which was to become central to future English military success.

The event is run entirely by college students and the proceeds go to local children's hospitals.

They deal almost entirely with a kind of love in which the heroines ponder the least gesture of a man until it takes on the proportions of an emotional event with lasting implications, while the heroes spend their time in mute surrender at the feet of remote and disdainful women.

However, applying the same event in reverse, it is difficult to explain how the various pieces of the cup come to possess exactly the nature and number of a cup before assembling, how they could assemble ( as neither floors nor hands can create china cups unaided ), why they should assemble precisely into the shape of a cup and fly up into the human hand ( as immobile floors cannot throw and, without contact, the human hand lacks the capacity to move objects unaided ) and why the water should position itself entirely within the cup.