Sentences with phrase «are sprint race»

Smaller Alaskan Huskies are sprint race dogs running a shorter distance but very fast at about 40 km / per hour.

«There are no more endurance races — they're all sprint races now, and some just run longer than others,» Fehan laughed.

«I think it's going to be another sprint race for six hours,» Garcia predicted.

Not exact matches

Perhaps for Nike, this race is a marathon, not a sprint.

«It's just unbelievable that someone can swim the sprint and distance races and be dominant all the way through,» says Dara Torres, a 12 - time Olympic swimming medalist.

Realize that this is not a race, sprint, marathon or otherwise.

Success is not a sprint, it's an Ironman marathon, and our twenties aren't really about running the actual race.

The drivers rushed back to their cars and prepared to get underway for a sprint to the flag, but in the time between the restart being announced and the drivers getting set to go, the fog set in again, and the race was ended.

The initial plan was to have the grid for the sprint race set in reverse championship order and whilst that would almost certainly be exciting, apparently it was seen as too artificial and has been dropped.

That would set the grid for the sprint race, which would be around 100 km in length (so one - third of the full race distance), and the result of that would set the grid for Sunday's grand prix.

Off the back of three consecutive wins, Piquet had all the momentum and Hamilton was on the back foot heading into the sprint race at Istanbul Park.

Whilst some wacky ideas have been thrown about like slotting in a sprint race between qualifying and the feature event, Brawn is reluctant to change a formula that has seen F1's popularity reach new heights in 2017.

Liberty presented the idea to teams in Melbourne, but having a short sprint race is just part of a bigger plan to shake up the race weekend.

He is an aspiring trade school teacher trained in plumbing, but in longer sprint races he has been known to clog up at the end.

There were more incidents in race two as yet another long red flag period led to a two - lap sprint to the chequered flag.

He was reportedly clocked at running 40 metres in just 4.2 seconds beating Walcott's record by just 1 / 100th of a second, but these times are being challenged by Richard Kilty, who is the World and European champion at 60 metre sprint racing.

Three years removed from a stellar short - track career running 30 - mile, dirt - oval sprints, Bowyer has exhibited a veteran's car - control skills and is one of only three drivers in the top 12 to have finished all 18 races this season.

The sprint race format in F2 is usually quite straightforward, because while drivers can change tyres they are often so durable a pitstop isn't needed.

Endurance races are now full - on sprints, with drivers required to push the cars to their maximum for every lap of every stint.

After Arsenal struggled through the end of 2015 and the start of the new year with a pretty heavy injury lost, we all got excited when players started to come back to match fitness and one player in particular was seen as the possible saviour of the season and the man to spark a strong sprint for the line in the race to win the Premier League.

The premier league is not a sprint race..

He and his three teammates were unaccustomed to racing on a banked track and to the style of international competition — agonizingly slow strategic maneuvering and then a frantic sprint to the finish.

Pitting on purpose in the sprint race in Formula 2 was pretty much unheard of until this year, when Charles Leclerc and Prema decided to do just that in Bahrain.

In a trice Arazi was racing for the lead, and in a sudden burst of speed — the very hallmark of his style — he sprinted to daylight as he pleased, running straight and sound to the wire.

Although modern endurance racing is basically just a sprint race that happens to last for a really long time, in years past speed wasn't always the most important element of success at Le Mans.

The Monegasque driver was leading the race when his Prema team gambled on a late pitstop with eight laps to go, which is almost unheard of in F2 (formerly GP2) sprint races.

«The F2 [sprint] race in Bahrain - it was absolutely amazing and that's exactly what we want to achieve.

Charles Leclerc's drive to first place in the Formula 2 sprint race last weekend was arguably one of the best performances in the junior categories we've seen in quite some time.

Events are split between sprint and endurance with competitors racing either in teams or as an individual.

But the 26 - year - old London 2012 road race silver medallist wasn't about to take it easy, edging out the Australian in the final sprint to win by 12 seconds.

Formula 1 chiefs are weighing up the prospect of changing qualifying to a sprint race in order to attract a wider audience.

Usain Bolt is to return to London's former Olympic Stadium to race over 100m on Friday July 22, with the Jamaican sprint star looking forward to the «special atmosphere» of the London Anniversary Games.

This is nothing new to a sport more akin to a marathon than a sprint where simply being in the race late in the year is all that matters.

Sprints action was also superb, with six women going sub - 10.90 for 100m combining both the «A» and «B» races, with the results led by Shelly - Ann Fraser - Pryce and Murielle Ahoure with their 10.81 in the Diamond League event.

The points race is a bunch event over a set distance with points available at «intermediate sprints» for the first four riders across the line.

Despite its simplicity, the scratch race can be an enthralling contest, with breakaways, lap gains and bunch sprints.

But now married to a Welshman, Rowe donned the Welsh jersey and was led out for her sprint by teammate Elinor Barker - who won the points race last week with the help of Rowe.

In the new omnium format, double points are available in the final sprint - Nelson knew she had to score to take silver and secured her medal by finishing the race in third place, with Barbieri second, good enough to earn her bronze.

With Kopecky continuing her impressive form taking the race win, Nelson was initially awarded the second place only to be reclassified in third behind Australia's Amy Cure, based on final sprint positions.

There were silver medals for the women's team pursuit and men's team sprint squads, while Jack Carlin earned a fantastic individual sprint silver and Mark Stewart took home bronze in the men's points race.

Many of the Republican incumbents who were expected to have challenging races this cycle, including New York Rep. Chris Gibson, Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman and Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis, are starting the general - election sprint in stronger - than - expected position.

Facing a last minute crunch, national Democratic groups poured in hundreds of thousands of dollars in ad buys within the last week, signaling Democratic concerns the race was heading for a neck - and - neck sprint to the finish line.

In New York's 23rd District, GOP Rep. Tom Reed finds ways to make races closer than they need to be, but he is polling well heading into the general - election sprint.

Exactly two weeks before Election Day, as the marathon race for mayor was heading into the final sprint, Nicole Malliotakis broke her foot trying to avoid stepping on her dog.

When diseases like cancer and AIDS are impacting millions of people each year and rare but deadly infections like Ebola are moving faster than treatment, the race to make effective drugs becomes a sprint.

Unlike the Olympic road and mountain bike races, which take place over dozens of miles and last several hours, a BMX race is a sprint.

A BMX race is an all - out sprint around a dirt track full of tight turns, bumps, and jumps.

Hill showed a single - nucleotide polymorphism — placed in the genome where a single nucleotide is altered — in this gene is «strongly associated» with elite sprint racing performance.

Anaerobic fitness refers to the body's ability to exercise when there's not enough oxygen, such as during a sprint to the finish line at the end of a race.

Her first race was a sprint triathlon.