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Action-packed start to Sydney to Hobart race
SYDNEY (AP) — Several near collisions and two of the race favorite super maxis making penalty turns marked a dramatic start to the Sydney to Hobart yacht race on Monday. Watched by a large spectator fleet, with tens of thousands more onlookers lining the shore of the picteresque Sydney Harbour, the action unfolded quickly just moments after the starting gun had sounded.