Sentences with phrase «as olympic»

For those who are new here, our home is on the west coast in the city of Seattle, overlooking the salty waters of the Puget Sound (as well as the Olympic Mountains on a clear day!).

However, when it was chosen as Olympic host city in 2010, apartments were at a premium.

Some paints, such as Olympic One Flat Enamel, improved at hiding.

service community with 24 hour doormen, concierge, a state of the art fitness center offering classes and trainers as well as an olympic sized seasonal pool, tennis courts, basketball courts, playground, dog park and shuttle to Metro North all included in your maintenance.

Chicago About Blog Philip Hersh spent 28 years as Olympic sports writer for the Chicago Tribune.

London bid a sad and memorable farewell to the Games on Monday as the Olympic and Paralympic athletes paraded through...

London bid a sad and memorable farewell to the Games on Monday as the Olympic and Paralympic athletes paraded through the city.

Living as an Olympic athlete isn't all glitz and glam.

As discussed here, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games has been notoriously strict about the use by non-sponsors of items such as the Olympic rings, the word «Olympics,» and even the use of certain words in advertising.

The Olympics are about to begin, and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games has been notoriously strict about the use by non-sponsors of items such as the Olympic rings, the word «Olympics,» and even the use of certain words in advertising.

Several of the young American hopefuls are involved in environmental issues as well as Olympic ones.

Eventually I might even see the rise in the level in the toddlers pool slow down so that it is only rising as fast as the olympic pool.

The list of publically viewable large - scale sculptures by Serra is long, and includes sites such as the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle; Gap Inc. headquarters, San Francisco; the plaza of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center at UCLA; the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; and an 80 - foot high sculpture in Doha, Qatar commissioned by the Qatar Museums Authority.

Just as the Olympic broadcast includes fluff pieces on local athletes excelling in the events and small profiles of local culture, the media for London 2012: The Official Video Game is also filled with fluff pieces.

But the allure of two of the world's most beloved gaming mascots competing in an event as historically significant as the Olympic Games was a huge draw for the masses, and thus the game became a massive hit.

After the heroes had defeated the two villains, Toad accepts Bowser and Dr. Eggman's requests to participate in the Olympic Games (their lack of invitations to the Olympic Games had been their motivator to their plans to fogging up London) and motions for the four heroes and two villains to hurry to the Main Stadium as the Olympic Games were to begin shortly.

Chicago About Blog Philip Hersh spent 28 years as Olympic sports writer for the Chicago Tribune.

The Park offers excellent biking and hiking trails which wind through spectacular natural landscapes, such as the Olympic Discovery Trail and the Spruce Railroad, which hugs the north shore of Lake Crescent along an old railroad bed.

Baywest Mall is a 10 minute drive away, offering a variety of activities such as an Olympic - size ice rink.

With surfing debuting for the first time as an Olympic event, the IOC (the International Olympic Committee) have worked with the ISA (International Surfing Association) who have worked together with the WSL to set the qualification standards and the selection criteria for countries to select their athletes to compete in the Olympic Surfing in Tokyo 2020.

Climate change is now recognized as such a threat to humanity that events as big as the Olympic opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro called attention to the subject.

Jefferson County Animal Services Auxiliary (JCASA)-- Feral Cat Division (FCD) Port Hadlock WA [October 2004 — now known as Olympic Mountain Pet Pals — Feral Cat Division (FCD)(see below)-RSB-

CMS tried the five - school model at Garinger High as well as Olympic, but pulled the plug on that in 2011, citing inconsistent leadership and performance.

It is very easy to be put on a pedestal as an Olympic medal holder but I remind pupils that I am just a normal person, and that everything I have achieved has come from hard work.

As the Olympic and Paralympic Games loom, will they inspire and excite young people to engage in sport and physical activity?

Peter Norman may be in the record books as an Olympic silver medallist, but his support of the protest against racial equality by Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the two black Americans sharing a podium with him, was arguably much more significant.

But Nakia has discovered Chubb Rocket's evil mission and alerted T'Challa, who accompanies a Wakandan delegation to Pyeongchang posing as Olympic athletes.

Nadezhda Sergeeva and Anastasia Kocherzhova, competing as Olympic Athletes from Russia, react in the finish area during the women's bobsleigh heats on Wednesday in the Pyeongchang Olympics.

Director Dexter Fletcher keeps the audience fully engages by subplots with Eddie's hilariously loving parents, Oscar winner Jim Broadbent as the Olympic announcer, and even Oscar winner Christopher Walken as Peary's former mentor.

The film follows the events that unfolded as Olympic gold medal winning wrestler Mark Schultz, and later his older brother, gold medal winner Dave (Mark Ruffalo), get involved with sinister millionaire John du Pont, who's looking to bankroll 1988 US Olympic competitors.

The single most effective and emotional moment occurs in a short clip of the real Louis Zamperini running as an Olympic torch bearer at age 80 for the 1998 Olympics (in Japan!).

«I, Tonya» is just one example of an above average film, which stars Margot Robbie as Olympic figure skater, Tonya Harding, in a biographical sports comedy - drama about the 1994 attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.

Awards-wise, however, it's all preamble to December's Unbroken, where O'Connell stars for director Angelina Jolie as Olympic athlete / World War II P.O.W. Louis Zamperini.

She's electric and a force to be reckoned with as the Olympic skater.

Daniel Radcliffe is done with Quidditch and moving on to the muggle racetrack as Olympic athlete Sebastian Coe in upcoming sports drama «Gold».

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Coming home from the war zone, Kyle, who had hopes of competing as an Olympic swimmer, suffers both physical and emotional injuries.

«I've been looking for a father my whole life and I finally found him in John du Pont,» says Channing Tatum as Olympic wrestling champ Mark Schultz in «Foxcatcher.»

We talk about the strength of female roles this year, discussing Margot Robbie's turn as Olympic ice skater Tonya Harding in «I, Tonya.»

Figure skating was first contested as an Olympic sport at the 1908 Summer Olympics, in London, United Kingdom.

If Jem (of Hologram fame) went dressed as an Olympic figure skater for Halloween, she would wear this dress.

And the idea of beating a time on lifts as complex as Olympic lifts is just irresponsible.

In Devers» case, doctor after doctor failed to recognize the signs of severe Graves» disease, as the Olympic gold medal - winning athlete dropped from 125 to only 87 pounds, suffered debilitating fatigue, lost nearly all her hair, and suffered other symptoms including rapid heart rate, and dry skin.

Gone are the days of endless running and sit ups, as many American soldiers are now using training methods such as Olympic Lifting, Kettlebells, Battling Ropes, Sleds, and one of the most reliable training tools of all, the Sandbag.

Type 2B fibers are built for explosive, very short - duration activity such as Olympic lifts.

It evolved from the «odd lifts,» which were more similar to strong man events, but became standardized in the 1950's as Olympic lifting saw a decline in popularity.

While it's still relatively new, CrossFit for kids is a strength and conditioning program consisting mainly of a mix of aerobic exercise, calisthenics as well as Olympic weightlifting.

Squats classified in this way are often described as Olympic squats or powerlifting squats and display certain key distinctive features.

You can also start your program at any time, regardless of your present physical condition and if you want to, you can take it to a point were you are almost as fit as an Olympic athlete and master the most amazing ab exercises.

This year we were particularly excited to see the Jiu Jitsu grappling, where some of the most agile athletes in the world compete, as well as the Olympic lifting where form and willpower is king.