Sentences with phrase «olympic trials»

That win helped propel her through several more big wins and eventually place first at the 1984 Olympic Trials.

Team McEwen will battle for a spot to compete in the upcoming Olympics in Sochi, Russia in February, which will be determined through a series of trials, culminating with eight teams each for men and women going to the Olympic trials, to be held Dec. 1 to 8 in Winnipeg.

Thankfully, this is not the Olympic trials.

In June, therapy dogs were brought in to relax swimmers competing in the U.S. Olympic trials in Omaha suffering from pre-race jitters.

With accolades like six U.S. Athlete of the Year titles in four different endurance sports, being an Olympic trials qualifier in the marathon event in 1996, and most recently, her induction into the Colorado Running Hall of Fame in 2012, she's a far cry from a weekend warrior.

In 2016 he fulfilled a lifelong ambition and started in - field presenting at major athletics events including the Olympic trials and the London Anniversary Games, culminating in the London World Athletics championships 2017 — where he got to run the 100m in front of 60,000 fans just before Usain Bolt (though in a slightly slower time).

Finding the perfect ETF for your portfolio and then paying an arm and a leg to a broker to buy shares is like being disqualified at the Olympic trials for a false start.

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

«U.S. national champion figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, a 1992 Olympic bronze medalist and one of the favorites to win the gold medal at next month's Winter Olympics, was attacked by a man wielding a blunt object after practice yesterday at the U.S. Olympic trials,» the story read.

We meet Jessica Chastain's Molly Bloom aged 20 as she enters the US team's Winter Olympic trials.

The effort culminated in a top 5 finish in the 1980 US National Marathon Championships and a qualifying spot for the 1980 US Olympic Trials.

A decorated athlete in his own right, Wil was an Olympic Trials participant, an all - American athlete, and the school record holder at Indiana University as a hammer thrower.

Ryan Shay, an Olympic Marathon hopeful, died suddenly during the early stages of the Olympic Trials Marathon in New York City.

Desiree Ficker, 2008 Ironman South Africa champion, Kona Ironman World Championships runner - up, and competitor in the 2008 US Olympic Trials in the...

He was training for the Olympic trials.

Kiefer introduced the Mach 5 Swim Goggles in spring 2008, inspired by the Omaha Olympic Trials and Beijing Olympics.

However, a vigorous program during the first four or five months — such as preparing for the Olympic trials next month — might build up lactic acid altering the taste of milk — giving it a sour taste, which baby might not care for.

She qualified for the Olympic Trials in swimming in 1976 and 1980, and was a member of a national championship swimming team at Stanford, where she later served as an assistant coach.

U.S. Olympic Trials.

And despite a fast pool and talk that more world records would be broken than at any other U.S. meet since the 1972 Olympic Trials (where 12 marks fell), only two world records were set.

She's also qualified for the 2016 Olympic Trials in both events.

Miller and Silverthorn are both qualified to compete in events at the Olympic Trials.

At 13 she was the second - youngest competitor at the 2008 Olympic trials, swimming in three events.

The philosophy for the group that has sent multiple swimmers to Olympic Trials and on to swim for top college swimming programs for the past 25 years is, «Character is what you do when no one is looking.»

In the 400 - meter hurdles at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Angelo Taylor decided he would try to blow the field out of the water early, taking a massive lead all the way into the home stretch starting in Lane 6.

Both brothers qualified for the Olympic Trials in 2012 and have been outstanding role models for the community.

After taking a liking to hurdles while goofing around after a high - jump camp, Woodward started training with 1976 Olympic Trials semifinalist Janet Benford to learn technique, but joining the hurdling sorority at Vacaville High provided a new perspective as well.

Sandy, a senior at Azusa High, runs the 440 so well that her track coach asked her to give up roller skating and concentrate on making it to the Olympic Trials.

Such raiment is in character for a fellow who introduced bikini briefs and fishnet tank tops to track and field when he came out of nowhere to qualify at the 1972 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore..

At the Olympic trials in New Orleans, Johnson won the 200 in near - world - record time.

In 1980 he made the U.S. Olympic trials in Niagara Falls.

Johnson, although ranked No. 1 in the world in the 400 for two straight years, had run only the 200 in the qualifying meet for the worlds and planned to do the same at the Olympic trials.

The Oregon football star won the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 110 - meter hurdles, and now he's racing for glory in Rio.

Walker is the defending world champion; in three weeks he'll return to Eugene for the Olympic trials and try to nail down a spot on the Beijing - bound U.S. team.

At the Olympic Trials in Oregon that summer, Al Feuerbach and George Woods beat them both; Matson and Oldfield battled for the third and last position on the team.

He's thinking of training for a spot in the 2004 Olympic trials.

Indeed, in 1924, Bowers finished 11th in the U.S. Olympic trials for the decathlon.

Michels finished third in the 242 - pound division at the U.S. Olympic Trials, qualifying as an alternate, but he was refused that spot because he had failed a drug test at the»83 Pan American Games.

Last spring he gave up baseball to concentrate on track, but quit at midseason, partly because his best time in the 100 meters, a 10.39 at the Florida Relays in March, wasn't good enough to qualify him for the Olympic trials, and partly because the demands of being a Heisman hopeful — interviews, addressing school kids and the like — took up too much time.

Camp, a 32 - year - old U.S. Navy flight instructor who has been running for 16 years, beat 6,472 other starters to win the fourth Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C.. His time of 2:19:35 qualified him for the Olympic Trials.

I transferred to the University of Colorado for my final year of eligibility, and became an NCAA - All American, then a multi-time US championships competitor and Olympic trials finalist in 1996.

He works out three days a week, only 40 minutes a session, but the former track standout who qualified for the»96 Olympic trials in the high jump, is faster than ever.

He also says that he didn't know Lochte's name until he recognized him swimming with his Florida Gators cap on at the Olympic Trials.

She'll just matter - of - factly train and knit and pick and can, and happily emerge in about a year for the Olympic Trials and the Olympics to show us that even this marvelous display at Boston was mere bushwhacking, just warming up.

U.S. Swimming, the governing body for the sport in this country, and the U.S. Olympic Committee announced Sunday that Angel Myers, who won three events at the recent Olympic trials and had a chance to win five medals in Seoul, would be disqualified from the Olympic team for use of a banned substance.

«I told him «You know, a year from now you're going to be at Olympic Trials, so let's go to some of these big meets now and get that experience.

Paulette Mitchell COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA Paulette, a senior at Lincoln High, qualified for the U.S. Olympic trials by heaving the shot put 53» 3 1/2».

Senior Lauren Fitzgerald, a Rice University commit that has Olympic Trials «cuts» in several events according to Sherman, admits the coach's team concept and rules can initially seem strange to year - round club swimmers.

«In the 1956 Olympic trials,» he recalls, «I hadthe second - fastest qualifying time in the 200 - meter breaststroke, but I nevergot to the finals.

One summer later he had a strong showing at the Olympic Trials and Stafford figured that it was then he started swimming like he believed he belonged.