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The pack of Tour de France cyclists pass by a field of sunflowers during the 123-mile seventh stage, starting in Tomblaine and finishing in La Planche des Belles Filles. Englishman Christopher Froome won the stage with a time of 4:58:35. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)
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Runners compete in the Great Wall marathon at Huangyaguan (Yellow Cliff Pass) Great Wall of China on Saturday. The annual race attracts more than 1,600 athletes from 49 countries and is regarded as one of the most challenging marathons in the world. (AFP PHOTOSTR/AFP/GettyImages)
Kentucky Derby horses (top left, clockwise) El Padrino, Rousing Sermon and Union Rags (both bottom photos) prepare for Saturday’s big race. (John Sommers II/Reuters; Rob Carr/Getty Images)
LAYDEN: One horse in field looks like a real force
MENEZ: Handicapping this year’s Kentucky Derby
GALLERY: Previewing the Kentucky Derby
Matilda Rose participates in the 2012 Beautiful Bulldog Contest in Des Moines, Iowa. Despite her fancy dress, Matilda did not win the event. See more photos from the contest in the gallery below. (Charlie Neibergall/AP)
Chinese young athletes practice Taekwondo techniques before the rehearsal of ceremony to mark 100-day countdown to London 2012 Olympic Games in Beijing last Tuesday. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
Nas Warriors’ Sani Yaro (center) is challenged by Lead United soccer players during a para-soccer tournament in Lagos, Nigeria on Saturday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Tillman rides his skateboard on pit road prior to the start of the Auto Club 400 at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. (Paul Hebert/Icon SMI)
Horse riders participate in a tent pegging competition in Islamabad over the weekend. The competition in Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad is taking place for the first time since 2004. (FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
Al Ferof ridden by Ruby Walsh jumps a fence in the Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy Steeple Chase run during day one of the Cheltenham Festival in Cheltenham, England. (Julian Finney/Getty Images)
Jockeys compete in a traditional camel race during the Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Camel Festival, which was held in the outskirts of Abu Dhabi on Thursday. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)
A pack of riders make their way through the second stage of the Tour of Oman cycling race between Sur and Wadi Dayqah Dam, Oman. (EPA)
MURPHY: Feds case may be closed, but Armstrong not yet in clear
These posters and hundreds more created by John and Tock Costacos are part of the “For the Kids” exhibit at the Country Club and Mondrian in Los Angeles. The brothers were originally T-shirt manufacturers, but started a side business creating “fantasy” sports posters that give professional sports heroes a larger-than-life look and appeal. Click on the link below for more posters from the exhibit. (Photos courtesy of the Costacos Brothers and Adam Shopkorn, New York)
PHOTO GALLERY: Sports Posters From The 1980s
A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain on Monday in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals. On the eve of Saint Anthony’s Day, hundreds ride their horses trough the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village of San Bartolome during the “Luminarias,” a tradition that dates back 500 years and is meant to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires and protect them for the year to come. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Participants in the Elephant Polo Tournament in Hua Hin, which is 100 miles south of Bangkok, fight for the ball during their match in September. Twelve international teams ride Thai street elephants during the week-long tournament (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj)
The Japanese team competes in the FINA Synchronized Swimming World Trophy competition in Beijing. Japan finished in seventh place, one spot behind the United States.
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