Baseball record-breaker Cal Ripken has missed his first game for more than 16 years.

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His fifth goal of the game, with 8:04 left to play, brought Cornell to within 14-12 and was the record-breaker.

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The attempt is being organised by Richard Noble, a veteran British record-breaker, and is sponsored by a number of companies.

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On this score, London looks much better than Athens, which overspent by a factor of far more than two and the great record-breaker, Montreal, whose citizens were paying for the 1976 games for decades.

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