Originally published Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 12:00 AM

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Todd Bodine: The former Craftsman truck champion and his brakeman beat Larry Gunselman's duo — 52. 20 seconds to 52. 21 — to win...

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Lance Armstrong, shown in Spain in early December, has been hanging out in Hawaii.

Todd Bodine: The former Craftsman truck champion and his brakeman beat Larry Gunselman's duo — 52.20 seconds to 52.21 — to win qualifying for the fourth annual Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge on Saturday in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Gunselman, from Snohomish, stared at the timing board in disbelief.

"Dang!" Gunselman said. "He got me by a hundredth. We were up by 15 hundredths for a while. Sandbagger!"

When Todd Bodine climbed out of his sled, a swath of red tape across the nose of his helmet nearly covered his eyes as darkness fell over the Mount Van Hoevenberg track.

"That's how I rode the whole run," Bodine said with a laugh. "It's fun. To beat Larry by a hundredth, that's what racing's all about. Everybody's here having fun, but we're all competitors. We all want to beat each other. We got it done. Bragging rights for tonight."

Lance Armstrong: The seven-time Tour de France champion is enjoying a working vacation in Hawaii in preparation for his return to elite road racing. Armstrong, 37, has been cruising the highways and country roads of Kona and Kohala on his bicycle since arriving Sunday.

Vernon Sekafetz manages Bike Works Kona, which rents and sells bicycles, and told The Honolulu Advertiser that Kona coast folks are used to having celebrities in their midst and it doesn't faze him that Armstrong is in town.

But, Sekafetz said, "if he walked in here it would be a different story."

The Associated Press

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