Sentences with phrase «american middle distance»

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Nick Symmonds, an American middle - distance runner who won a silver medal at World Championships in Russia in 2013, was booted from Team USA for the 2015 games in Beijing because he refused to wear Nike at team functions.

It is possible for many white, middle - class Americans to distance themselves from other liberation movements.

Middle distance runner Sara Hall, wife of U.S. marathoner Ryan Hall, says the conditions could create an advantage for this year's American field.

American middle - distance star believed abstinence built up needed prerace tension: «Sex makes you happy, and happy people don't run a 3:47 mile»

Born of working - class Italian - American stock, Zamperini's childhood in Depression - era California was marked by minor bouts of delinquency until he discovered his talents as a middle - distance runner and went on to represent his country at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

His early work features broad, calm rectangles in the manner of the American Color Field painters, but Hoyland's distinctive contribution has been to break with the modernist insistence on a flat surface and to put perspective back into abstract painting: his mature work is characterised by depth and texture, in which strange objects float in the foreground or middle distance, against an often mysterious background, in a way that is oddly reminiscent of Miro.

The works by Richard Artschwager (American, 1923 - 2013) range in date from 1974 to 2011, beginning with a ghostly drawing entitled Door Window Table Basket Mirror Rug # 10 and ending with a late painting — Landscape with Median — in which a red road, marked with two bold yellow stripes, leads ambiguously into the middle - distance.