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May 23, 2009 10:26 am US/Eastern

Kennedy Won't Attend First Part Of Figawi Race

HYANNIS (WBZ) ― Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy will not attend the first leg of the Figawi boat race that kicks off Saturday.

Kennedy has not made a decision about whether he will take part in the rest of the Figawi boat race between the island and Cape Cod this weekend.

The senator competed in the second half of last year's Cape sailboat race one week after he was diagnosed with brain cancer.

The Figawi race started in 1972 and takes its name from a question disoriented sailors often ask themselves, "Where the Figawi?" A logo for the race depicts a Native American looking through the wrong end of a telescope.

Kennedy has won the contest twice.

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