Sentences with phrase «anchor leg of»

To help commemorate the race's 50th anniversary, the Baja Ridgeline Concept truck will have a special red metal flake livery, and 11 - time Baja 1000 Honda motorcycle racer, Johnny Campbell, will take the wheel for the anchor leg of the race.

Lemza added her 100 free and anchor leg of the 200 free were the loudest, most competitive races she has been apart of all season.

As Marc Courtney - Brooks touched the wall well ahead of the field on the anchor leg of the season - ending 400 - yard freestyle relay, his coach, the irrepressible Jim Steen, bear - hugged his swimmers and acknowledged the boisterous cheers emanating from the purple - clad Kenyon College section at the St. Peters Rec - Plex in St. Louis.

Not exact matches

Australia's women retained their Olympic title by winning the 4x100m freestyle relay in world record time, with sisters Bronte and Cate Campbell swimming the last two stages to overhaul the United States, despite the efforts of Katie Ledecky on the anchor leg.

Nadine started the day by taking the 100m, 200m and 400m titles, but the moment of the match was her anchor leg in the 4x400m relay, where she caught and overtook the Cambridge athlete in the final metres of the last race of the day, bringing the match victory back to Oxford for the first time in four years.

Versatile Southern, who flew up from Dallas after beating Bobby Morrow in 220 in 20.6, spread his wings in 440, tore off 44.6 anchor leg to haul teammates Wally Wilson, Drew Dunlap and Jimmy Holt to new college mile relay record of 3:09.1, bettering 17 - year - old mark held by California (April 19).

It was sparked by a U.S. loss in the 1991 world championships when Great Britain's 400 - meter hurdler Kriss Akabusi overhauled world 400 champion Antonio Pettigrew in the stretch of the anchor leg.

This is 40 kilometers, and four guys, and Bjørn Dæhlie is the anchor leg for Norway, and this Italian — I think his name was Silvio Fauner — edged him at the finish line by less than four inches at the tip of his ski.

Long jumper Lorraine Ugen then resisted the charge of Jamaica's double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson on the anchor leg to take gold alongside teammates Asha Philip, Dina Asher - Smith and Bianca Williams.

With the left and right legs of the Snappi anchored to the top wings, draw the 3rd and final leg of the Snappi down between baby's legs and when taunt, anchor securely in the Prefold.

«It's like starting a race with an anchor tied to your leg,» Cuomo said of the $ 30,000 average debt for college graduates.

Of current college education debt, the governor declared, «it's like starting like a race with an anchor tied to your leg,» WCBS 880's Rich Lamb reported.

«The debt is so high it's like starting a race with an anchor tied to your leg,» Mr. Cuomo said of the student loans most college graduates face — a figure that totals more than $ 1 trillion nationally.

Speaking of the $ 30,000 or more in debt that many college students in New York accumulate by the time they graduate, Cuomo said, «It's like starting a race with an anchor tied to your leg.»

«It is incredibly expensive, and the debt is so high it's like starting a race with an anchor tied to your leg,» Cuomo said of paying for college.

Jarvis told me she knocked out a Hox gene called Abd - B in this one — the embryo will grow jumping legs where it should have swimming legs, and forward walking legs instead of anchor legs.

To do all this, a tick needs legs that can grip a large variety of surfaces, anchor the tick when a host is trying to scratch it out, and support the huge increase in body weight as it feeds — a female tick can swell to 135 times her initial size after a blood meal.

How am I supposed to anchor my tailbone, square my hips and get that inward rotation of the back leg?

Dropping the head of the thigh bone into the socket acts as an anchor to weight the base of the leg into the pelvic.

Note: If you can not do this movement because your legs keep slipping out from under you, try anchoring your feet under a piece of furniture or weight bench until you can do it without the anchor.

Remember, the pose is anchored by the femur bone of the left leg.

The position of your left leg is fixed, which means that the left side of the pelvis will be anchored in mostly forward - facing position.

As you bring your right leg closer to straight, anchor the bottom leg deeper into the floor by pressing the sole of the left foot down into the mat as much as possible.

Assessing the effect of anchoring the feet, Andersson et al. (1997) compared the straight - legged curl up and straight - legged sit up with and without the feet anchored to the floor.

Konrad et al. (2001) compared a number of gymnastic exercises and found that the horizontal straight leg anchored side bend displayed the highest external oblique muscle activity, followed by the reverse curl up Escamilla et al. (2006) compared the power wheel roll out (power wheel in hands), jack knife and knee - tuck (power wheel attached to feet), the ab sling bent - leg hanging leg raise, the flat and decline reverse curl up, the anchored bent leg sit up, and bent leg curl up.

Remember, the name of the game in this exploration is to anchor the legs while revolving the spine and torso in the opposite direction; on this side, that will maximize the stretch in the left side of the body.

Targets: Cardio, legs How to: Lay the landmine flat on the ground and stand on the right side of the barbell, facing the anchor (a).

We anchored the journey around a visit to Lake Powell (pictured above) but each leg of the trip had something special to see / do / experience.

Although traditionally a console table had a very specific definition of a table anchored to the wall with two front legs, the term more generally means a table styled against the wall.

They come in a 1970s - style flared shape that's anchored by a distinctive curved side - buckle belt, and finished with streamlining topstitching through the centre of each leg.

Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski's use of brown tones and chiaroscuro lighting is simply appropriate; interestingly, almost every moment of imagination involves the physicality of the president — sitting before Union soldiers in a manner that conjures the Lincoln Memorial, standing atop the prow of the ship in an early, eerie dream sequence, his long legs and tall hat anchoring one corner of a wide frame as he talks to his telegraph operators in the dead of night.

Tomorrow, we'll hear from Smarter Balanced, and Wednesday's anchor leg will be run by the United States Department of Education.

We created a makeshift mattress tent, anchoring the bed to the legs of my parents» dresser with ropes, piling up our pillows and blankets beneath it.

The seatbelts move from the seat itself to a more normal anchor, meaning slimmer seats and more leg room in the back (but still not enough unless you're the size of a Minogue).

The hint of a leg can slip out from the grid or anchor it.

Upon closer inspection, however, the red chair becomes a distorted office chair, the palm trees are blown by gail - force winds, and the large sculptures merely the legs of office furniture anchored in cement.

Panels are sleek with clean lines, and legs anchor the cabinets to give them the look of furniture.