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The driver left her near a gas station in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, which was more than eight miles from her destination in Rosemont, according to the lawsuit.

Tuesday's stage 16 ended eight kilometres before the scheduled finish, while several other stages of this year's race including stage 11 - which was shortened without a winner - have suffered the same issues.

Cooper angers pilots, the airlines and especially Ralph Himmelsbach, 71, a retired FBI agent who spent the last eight years of his career trying to find him.

He competed in a further 11 episodes, winning eight consecutive contests, before being finally defeated.

Requests for feature story interviews involving players and a staff including eight new assistant coaches have largely been not just denied but ignored.