Sentences with phrase «olympic track»

Trick or Treating is tonight and I'm taking my Navy Seal, my Olympic Track Star and a Monkey.

Physically fit with personal achievements including participation in Olympic track and field trials, multiple iron man competitions, and over 20 marathons

The 2011 painting of Olympic track and field champion Alice Coachman sold for $ 149,000 (including fees) in May 2016.

It's been a half century since the Studio Museum in Harlem was founded, the Chicago artist collective AFRICOBRA was formed, Olympic track athletes raised their fists at the Mexico City games in a stand for racial justice, and the Kerner Commission was released and declared the United States was «moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.»

It isn't every day that you have the privilege to enjoy your sporting activities on an Olympic track or field.

Louis Zamperini was already an Olympic track star when the journey that would reshape his life began.

Olympic track star Usain Bolt was but a few feet away on the Nissan stand, posing for pictures next to the GT - R Nismo, but that combo wasn't as cool as this Sentra.

Without your approval, it lied to the United States Olympic Committee that it would have a gorgeous new stadium in place for the 2020 Olympic Track and Field Trials.

First up is Unbroken, the Universal film that explores «the unbreakable spirit of Louis Zamperini, the former Olympic track prodigy who endured unimaginable hardship as a WWII POW at the hands of Japanese prison guards.»

They settle on the limbs of Olympic track star Mo Farah.

Synopsis: Angelina Jolie directs this true life tale of Louis Zamperini, the Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in World War II, only to fight for... [MORE]

If you've ever watched Olympic track runners on TV and wondered what they eat to keep their muscles fueled and energized, join the club.

While McLaughlin isn't the first 16 - year - old runner to join the U.S. Olympic track team, it's incredibly rare for someone so young to qualify.

Usain Bolt may be looking to cement his Olympic track legacy at this year's London games, but in a competition for world's fastest sprinter, it's the cheetah that takes first place.

They are believed to be in wide use in professional sports — although most athletes deny it — and their illegal use recently ignited explosive, high - profile controversy in Major League Baseball and Olympic track - and - field events.

Involving workplace and company colleagues, runners of all abilities will take on a 5x5km road race which will finish on the Olympic track.

World Champion Lizzie Armitstead is set to defend her British road race title against Olympic track gold medallist Dani King and junior World Champion Lucy Garner on June 26 in Stockton - on - Tees.

Usain Bolt has already reached in Rio de Janeiro to compete Olympic track and field.

Kiprotich is the first major name confirmed for the 2014 Bupa Great North Run, with last year's event won by Ethiopian long - distance great Kenenisa Bekele from double world and Olympic track champion Mo Farah, with Haile Gebrselassie a gallant third.

The double world and Olympic track champion has had his summer plans interrupted by illness and was forced to withdraw from the 5000m and 10,000 m — the distances over which he won his Olympic and world titles — at the Commonwealth Games.

The only day at an Olympic track comparable to this one was Oct. 18, 1968, when Lee Evans became the first man to break 44 seconds in the 400, with 43.86, some dozen minutes after Bob Beamon's prodigious record long jump of 29» 2 1/2».

JOHN T. CORE Olympic Track & Field Committee Richmond, Va..

Speed Training by Olympic Track Athletes... getting you to run your fastest.

But having learned to drive by feel as no driver before him, America's sledi knight will have an advantage on the 2010 Olympic track, the world's fastest, with sleds reaching speeds of 95 mph.

Former Olympic track champion Michael Johnson, who now works as a sports consultant, has met with Freddy several times to discuss the coming storm.

This mixture has been used for some of the finest tracks in the world: the one at Oxford on which Roger Bannister ran the first four - minute mile, the 1956 Olympic track at Melbourne, the Dublin track where Herb Elliott ran his world record mile in 1958, and even the track which the Sheik of Kuwait built for his university on the Persian Gulf (no records are likely to be set there, however, because of the tendency of the temperature to climb up to the neighborhood of 140 °).

Auburn coach Pat Dye's list of concerns for spring practice seemed normal enough: 1) Find a quarterback to run his read - and - react wishbone attack; 2) Replace placekicker Al Del Greco; 3) Hope that consensus All - America halfback Bo Jackson (page 134), who had skipped spring football to take a run at making the Olympic track team, didn't catch terminal tetanus from a cinder burn.

They are Tour de France Winner JACQUES ANQUETIL, Skater ALAIN CALMAT, Skier GUY PERILLAT, Rugby Star MICHEL CRAUSTE and Olympic track and field star JOCELYN DELECOUR.

Sanya Richards - Ross, one of the stars of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field team, lived up to her massive potential and captured the gold medal in the finals of the 400m dash.

They were always alone on the track, sharing a sport and eventually the distinction of being the only father and daughter to have won Olympic track and field medals.

In the past few months he has received the Outland Trophy as the nation's top interior lineman, wowed talent evaluators at the NFL's scouting combine and won the shot put title at the NCAA's indoor championships, thereby qualifying for the Olympic track and field trials to be held June 14 - 23.

But the virginal and beautiful Olympic track star at 29 has a great story to tell about taking herself seriously in a world where everything is....

AP: A luge athlete from Georgia, Nodar Kumaritashvili, was killed in a crash in training on the Olympic track at the Whistler Sliding Center on Friday, an Olympic luge official at the track confirmed, the worst case scenario developing on a track that many competitors have said is too fast.

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Officials from the international luge federation and Olympic officials did not immediately confirm his condition, nor where he was taken after rescue officials removed him from the track.

«Whether we rent or drive our own... we still haven't driven our sleds for this entire week and gotten used to the track,» said Elana Meyers Taylor, two - time Olympic medalist and bobsled world champion.

Better known to many as «Lord Coe,» the IAAF's new leader is a former British track superstar who won four Olympic gold medals in the 1980s.

The playful blue - and - red track design is an early nod to the 2020 Olympic Games, which Tokyo will host.

The Olympic logo is embossed on the cover and next to the tracking pad.

Bowerman had just been appointed head track and field coach for the U.S. Olympic team, and the track trials, to be held in Eugene, were only months away.

This quote says it all perfectly, Jackie Joyner - Kersee, a track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist explains:

Swimming, track, and gymnastics typically steal the spotlight during the summer Olympic Games, but for this year's event in Rio de Janiero, keep a close eye on rowing.

«Other athletes to test positive include: Semion Elistratov of Russia, an Olympic gold medalist in short - track speedskating; Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia, a world champion speedskater; Davit Modzmanashvili of Georgia, an Olympic silver medalist in wrestling; and Abeba Aregawi of Sweden, a world champion runner.»

The gym has two floors of exercise equipment, an indoor running track, an Olympic - sized swimming pool, and lots of competition.

The line snakes out of the door and into the Olympic athlete village in Rio de Janeiro, a United Nations of track - suits and warm - up gear: Algeria green, Bangladeshi blue, United Arab Emirates white.

Bolt's by far the biggest draw in track and field: the Rio Olympic Stadium was packed and hyped on the nights Bolt ran, but eerily quiet when he wasn't on stage.

Roberto Pukitis of Latvia, J.R. Celski of the U.S. and Pavel Sitnikov, Olympic athlete from Russia, react after crashing during the Men's 1000m Short Track Speed Skating Competition on Feb. 13th, 2018.

That humble receptacle is actually a step up from what he used during his days as the world's top short track speed skater, when the eight - time Olympic medalist kept his prize bling in his sock and underwear drawer.

Cameo appearances: Darryl Woodson (USATF Track Coach), Natasha Hastings (Olympic champion), Umber Ahmad (Ma Zeh Dar Bakery), Brian Chesky (Airbnb)

One reason he was able to rebound from the terrible Olympic blow was because, at 18, he had so much competition ahead of him: he would go on to shine in more track meets, and became an All - American football player at Syracuse University.

«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.»