Sentences with phrase «after winning a gold medal»

Rafaela Silva of Brazil celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Women's -57 kg Final - Gold Medal Contest on Day 3 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Just a nice, quiet, radically fast young man with no interest in making social statements and no clue as to why anyone — all the reporters who peppered him with questions about race after he won the gold medal, all the people roaming websites, even a writer from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED — would make color an issue.

«After you win a gold medal at the Olympics, everybody wants to use your body,» he says.

He became a hero in Britain after winning a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in 1976, but was subsequently pilloried in the media after casually and almost accidentally admitting he was gay.

After winning the gold medal, Biles tweeted that she intends to vacation in Belize to relax after all of the excitement of competing in the Rio Games.

Bridge is composed of hundreds of fiberglass casts painted gold, all of them representing the life size, raised arm of Tommie Smith, the runner who gave the Black Power salute after winning the gold medal in the 200 meter dash at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Not exact matches

Fast - forward a week or so, and she'd won a gold medal, after beating the world Nos. 2 and 3 and making it three rounds further than presumptive victor Serena Williams.

Michael Phelps laughs after being presented with his 20th Olympic gold medal after winning the men's 200 - meter butterfly at Rio 2016 on Tuesday, August 9, 2016.

One of the defining images of the Rio Olympics was Neymar collapsing into an emotional heap after nailing the gold - medal - winning penalty kick in front of his home crowd.

One thing to know: Dahlmeier doesn't have any Olympic medals to her name, but has a strong chance to get one at Pyeongchang after winning five of six possible gold medals at the 2017 world championships.

Michael Phelps has won the most medals in Olympic history (28 overall and 23 gold) but after the 2012 Olympics in London, Phelps announced he was retiring from swimming.

«Things started hitting me this morning,» Phelps said on Thursday after winning his 26th medal and 22nd gold in the 200m individual medley.

And there's the «Biles,» named after Simone Biles, who just won the women's all - around gold medal at the Rio Olympics.

After Rie Kaneto of Japan opened the evening by winning the women's 200 breaststroke ahead of Russia's Yulia Efimova, first - time U.S. Olympian Ryan Murphy won the 200 backstroke for his second gold medal of the Games.

Solo lashed out publicly after the U.S.'s 4 - 0 loss and was shunned by her teammates, but ultimately Ryan lost his job and Solo was welcomed back to the U.S. team under coach Pia Sundhage and won a gold medal in 2008.

Two days after becoming the first American to win back - to - back judo gold medals, she tried to sate a long - denied craving for a Big Mac and McFlurry.

Jamie Gray, wife of U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit shooter Staff Sgt. Hank Gray, bites her Olympic gold medal after winning the women's 50 - meter rifle 3 - positions event, Aug. 4, 2012, at the Royal Artillery Barracks range in London.

Kansas Authorities Arrest Man for Fraud After Thousands of Dollars Worth of Napa Wine Disappears: Three Napa wineries may finally get some of their gold - medal winning wine worth tens of thousands of dollars back after James Allen Hall was arrested Friday in Wichita, KansAfter Thousands of Dollars Worth of Napa Wine Disappears: Three Napa wineries may finally get some of their gold - medal winning wine worth tens of thousands of dollars back after James Allen Hall was arrested Friday in Wichita, Kansafter James Allen Hall was arrested Friday in Wichita, Kansas...

The Houghton Wisdom Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 also won a gold medal, after successfully winning a trophy at the Wine Show of Western Australia.

After Carl Lewis won his third and last individual gold medal, in the 200 meters, the first thing he said was, «I'm really glad to get all of this over.»

Led by 27 - year - old Chiang Shao - yi, the Chinese women won nine gymnastics medals, including five gold, and they had onlookers wondering what they will do for an encore after they gain international experience.

With golds in diving, gymnastics and shooting, the People's Republic's participation in the Asian Games after 20 years of athletic exile was a banner occasion for winning friends and medals

After USA's Sage Kotsenburg won the first gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics in the slopestyle snowboard, he instantly became an...

Russia's Isinbayeva had won the last two gold medals in the event, but had to settle for bronze after failing to clear 4.75 meters.

Xhaka would win a gold medal if holding your arm in the air after hitting a terrible pass were an event

Twenty - four hours after winning the softball gold medal in Athens, Cat Osterman said cheerily, at a swank seaside party, «I have to go back in the morning.

The day after her victory, Shiffrin talked of winning five gold medals in 2018 and spent the rest of the year walking that quote back, embarrassed at her bravado.

«I reckon it's going to be really tough for me to win a gold medal in the Olympics,» he said after the L.A. meet.

At age 79 after he fell and hit his head on a concrete gym floor, Harold Connolly (above), who won the gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1956 Olympics despite throwing with a left arm that had been withered since birth.

After winning just one medal in the first five events of the Games (Julia Mancuso's unexpected bronze in the super combined, boosting her U.S. women's record medal total to four), the U.S. won four medals in the final five events, beginning with a silver and a bronze by Andrew Weibrecht and Bode Miller, respectively, in the Super-G, followed by Ted Ligety's dominant gold as the heavy favorite in the giant slalom and, finally, Shiffrin's gold.

After starting the MMU Taekwondo club in January 2011, Ross Sharman has seen the club grow from just ten members to over 40, win the 2015 MMU Sport Club of the Year award, win gold medals across a number of competitions and boast a 100 % grading record, with over 150 gradings taking place.

Ethiopia's Meseret Defar won gold in the women's 5k, reclaiming the medal she won in Athens after bronze in Beijing in 2008.

I do love to see women who are determined to go after what they want, despite any obstacles (real or perceived) whether it's trying to stand up on a wave or win an Olympic gold medal!

Given Team USA's recent dominance in international competitions, winning every gold medal after the 2014 Olympics, perhaps this was the year Jones deserved a shot to show she could take down the mighty Americans.

Whether it's the bacon gold medal, or his hilarious Instagram and Twitter accounts, the Park City, Utah, native has quickly became an internet sensation after winning Gold in Sogold medal, or his hilarious Instagram and Twitter accounts, the Park City, Utah, native has quickly became an internet sensation after winning Gold in SoGold in Sochi.

Winning gold may have been the dream but Kirsty Gilmour insists she is over the moon after claiming Scotland's first European Championships silver medal.

After a sensational season for British cycling in 2012 - which saw Team Sky capture a one - two finish at the Tour de France before going on to win eight gold medals at the London Olympic Games - Brailsford faced the task of sustained success in 2013.

Muir has been selected for the 1500m and 3000m along with fellow Scot Eilish McColgan after the duo won gold medals at the SPAR British Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham last weekend.

Just 24 hours after securing Olympic qualification for Rio 2016 via their semi-final win over Germany, Great Britain returned to the pitch to defeat China 2 - 0 in the gold medal match.

There were second gold medals of the event for the pairings of Sophie Thornhill and Helen Scott, and Neil Fachie and Pete Mitchell, while Jon Gildea and Crystal Lane reached the top step of the podium for the second time after both winning the scratch race.

This was the first gold medal that Brazil has won at the Olympics, and it was a very important one especially after their disappointment at the last World Cup.

The Brownlee brothers shared the award last year after they made history in winning the gold and silver medals in the Rio Olympics triathlon.

He noted Ghana won only a bronze medal at the recently held Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia after presenting over 70 athletes.

«In the corruption Olympics that is Albany, I think Andrew Cuomo is winning himself some gold medals,» Nixon told the Buffalo News shortly after launching her campaign in March.

After acknowledging and thanking Glor and then saluting local native Emily Pfalzer for her role with the Olympic gold medal - winning USA Women's Hockey team, thanked the «changemakers» in the room who helped him for the past 12 years «leading our city out of the past, and now it's up to all of us to work together to determine our future.»

Altogether, they found that thirteen of the fourteen gold medal winners smiled immediately after they completed their winning match, while eighteen of the twenty - six bronze medalists smiled.

Other octopus species would win the gold medal of parental sacrifice: After laying their eggs, females starve to death in order to protect them until they hatch.

After coming out of nowhere to win a gold medal in the 2006 Torino Winter...

Snowboarder Hannah Teter has literally done it all: she's won Olympic medals in halfpipe — gold in 2006 and silver in 2010 — modeled for SI's swimsuit issue and even had an ice cream named after her (Ben & Jerry's «Maple Blondie»).

«A living example that a ketogenic diet can indeed be combined with outstanding achievements in physical exercise is the Olympic biathlon gold medalist Björn Ferry, who won his gold medal after about 6 months on a low - carbohydrate high - fat diet.