PICTURE OF THE DAY

SPEAKING OF RACES...Scotsman Mark Beaumont, foreground left, is escorted by a television crew on a motorbike, as he cycles through the Paris traffic on the Arc de Triomphe plaza, Friday, Feb. 15, 2008, while completing his record-breaking round the world cycling challenge.

Beaumont, 25, circumnavigated the globe from Paris, France, going around the globe and back to Paris, in 195 days and 6 hours, smashing the old record of 276 days.




(AP Photo/Francois Mori)