Sentences with phrase «olympic team competed»

Seventy - five percent of the 2016 U.S. Olympic team competed in collegiate athletics at the varsity and club levels.

In 2016, George joined the US Olympic team competing in Rio.

Not exact matches

Russian officials have threatened to boycott the Pyeongchang Games if its team members are forced to compete under the Olympic flag.

U.S. Olympic wrestler Jordan Burroughs (right) competes at the 2016 U.S. Olympic team wrestling trials in Iowa City, Iowa on April 10.

Burroughs leads a U.S. team including Adeline Gray, Kyle Snyder, and J'den Cox competing for Olympic gold this month.

The U.S. Men's Basketball team is the most successful team in international competition, winning medals in all 18 of the Olympic games it's competed in.

Mirai Nagasu of the United States competes in the Figure Skating Team Event Ladies Single Free Skating on day three of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games on February 12, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea.

According to this story, Tamerlan (the brother who was killed last night), was a boxer who could have been selected for the U.S. Olympic team if he had won an upcoming Golden Glove competition he (said) he was planning on competing in.

«In the entire history of the modern Olympic games,» Glickman later said, «no fit American track and field performer has ever not competed in the Olympic games, except for Sam Stoller and me» the only two Jews on the 1936 team.»

This past July, Tom competed on a national level for team trials with the American Culinary Federation (ACF) for the Team USA United States Culinary Olympic team in Orlateam trials with the American Culinary Federation (ACF) for the Team USA United States Culinary Olympic team in OrlaTeam USA United States Culinary Olympic team in Orlateam in Orlando.

Throughout the years, the ACF has provided me with great networking opportunities and resources in the culinary industry, not to mention the support they have personally give me while competing for the Global Chef title when I was on the National Culinary Olympic team.

Today the team competes in intercollegiate competition in Olympic 7's Rugby in the fall, and 15's Rugby in the winter in the Pacific Mountain Conference.

In June, Riecke, at the age of 34, earned a berth on the five - man U.S. Olympic weight - lifting team, which competed against Russia.

Colangelo said that the players who competed in Vegas will have «sweat equity» in making the Olympic team, but he's backed off his earlier insistence that players commit for three years.

Back in the late 1990s, teams used to bring their own designs and compete on the Olympic rowing lake behind the paddock at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, and in yet another thing to add to the list of awesome things Liberty Media have done since getting rid of Bernie, they brought the race back and live streamed it on Facebook.

As a member of the McCormick Diving team, she competed in Junior Olympic and Senior National competitions.

Fortunately the team that arrived in Mexico City this week includes a number of boxers who have international experience, most notably Light Welterweight James Wallington Jr. and Light Heavyweight Arthur Redden, both of whom won gold medals in the 1967 Pan-American Games, and Harlan (Baby Cakes) Marbley, who will be competing in a new Olympic division, the 106 - pound, or light flyweight, class.

A.J. Mleczko, 1998 U.S. women's Olympic hockey team member: «As athletes we train and we compete, and nothing they do should be able to take away the spirit of the Olympics.

Rachel competed for Team USA in the 2012 London Olympic Games in 4 × 100 Medley Relay (Gold) and the 100 Backstroke (6th place).

She competed for Team USA in the 2012 London Olympic Games in the 200 IM (bronze) and the 400 IM (6th place).

As well as keeping goal for Selangor he was part of the Malaysia Olympic field hockey team at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and competed in the Asian games in 1958 and 1962, where he won Bronze in Jakarta.

The Team is selected by the British Olympic Association, in conjunction with the governing bodies, from the best sportsmen and women to compete in 28 summer and 7 winter Olympic sports at the greatest sporting event in the world.

With many of the GB Cycling Team's leading riders competing, this event is an excellent opportunity to see them in action ahead of what will be a vitally important winter of racing, running in to the 2012 Olympic Games.

Alistair Brownlee isn't Team GB's only Olympic champion to compete for the first time on Day 13 with Jade Jones bidding to defend her title in taekwondo's -57 kg category on the Olympic Park.

Former Oxford Blue Tom Mitchell has been named captain in the first ever Team GB Sevens squad that will compete in the rugby sevens at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

They all competed for Team GB at either the Youth Olympic Games or European Youth Olympic Festival before quickly graduating to the biggest show in sport.

A year later Ling competed for Team GB again, this time at the Baku 2015 European Games, where he finished fourth, before winning his first Olympic medal when he claimed bronze at Rio 2016.

The six athletes will compete across four events in Brazil, looking to continue Team GB's strong track - record of shooting success having won 44 medals — 13 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze — in Olympic Games history.

Patrick Makau and Emmanuel Mutai will form one third of a six - strong Kenyan assault on the Virgin London Marathon on April 22 when they take each other on to compete for highly - coveted places on their national Olympic team.

The team practices and competes in home meets at Olympic Indoor Swim Center.

And who knows, if London is awarded the Olympic Games in 2012, it is to be hoped that many more sport scientists will be involved in the preparation of the British Olympic Team that will compete on home soil for the first time in more than half a century.

«It's like training someone to be a pole vaulter for 15 years and then saying, «You haven't made the Olympic team but have a go at shot - putting,»» says chemistry lecturer Lee Higham of Newcastle University, U.K. Still, others are just determined to pursue an academic job even though they know how hard they'll have to compete for a permanent position.

Team USA will soon take to the ice and snow in Sochi, Russia, to compete with the world's best at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

Since then, Abdul - Saboor's competitive drive and athletic tenacity has secured him a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team, where he now competes on the world stage at PyeongChang.

Jessica is a former member of the Canadian National Swim Team (1995 - 2003) and competed at the Atlanta and Sydney Olympic Games.

Adriane also nearly became a member of the 2012 USA Olympic Team, as she competed for a spot in the Throws, but was ever so slightly edged out during the trials.

I train both women and men and have coached a primarily female powerlifting team for the last 4 years or so, competed myself and am completely in love with Olympic weightlifting and teach everyone from 20 year olds to women in their 60s how to do it.

Two worlds collide when cycling legend Jock Boyer moves to Rwanda to help the first Rwandan National Cycling Team in their six year journey to compete in the Olympic Games in London.

Before acting she was an accomplished gymnast aspiring to compete in the Olympic Games, but her father prevented her from being recruited by the Mexican national team.

While a student - athlete at the University of Virginia, Mei was captain of the swim team and competed in the 2008 Olympic Trials.

Guests may discover newspaper clippings and illustrations from the early 1900s; vintage Kodak cameras, the cutting - edge technology of the time; even croquet mallets from 1900 in homage to French obsession with the sport when a female team from that country competed in that year's Olympic games.

Follow the video blogs of Justin West and Leonor as she competes and trains for various events in Australia, Hawaii, Japan, Tahiti and Europe as she strives to make the coveted women championship tour and Olympic team selection Japan 2020.

Although Simon Biles is an American citizen competing in the Olympic Games for the American women's gymnastics team, she had more than her fair share of fans in Belize cheering on her amazing success.

Those familiar with the prior games will get the general gist: characters from both Mario and Sonic franchises team up to compete in a wide variety of Olympic - related events, while at the same time being wacky and causing hilarity.

As in earlier releases in the Mario & Sonic Olympic series, the 2012 London game features characters from both the Nintendo and Sonic game universes, arrayed into Team Mario and Team Sonic allowing players to compete as their favorite characters in real world sporting events.

Megan and Ellie commented: «Our goal is plainly an Olympic Gold, but getting to Tokyo requires a huge amount of support from the British Sailing Team, our family and friends, and importantly sponsors who enable us to compete internationally which is hugely expensive.

In 1993, Disney's Cool Runnings put Olympic bobsledding in the spotlight with its tale of an underdog team from Jamaica that defied the odds to compete on the same track as the world's greatest athletes, and now Eddie the Eagle seems poised to do the same for ski jumping.

Gather some inspiration from Yusra Mardini, an 18 - year - old who competed as part of the Olympic Refugee Team in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

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About Blog Dave Tilley blogger spent entire life in gymnastics, competing for 18 years in the Junior Olympic program and as part of the Springfield College Men's Team.