Sentences with phrase «athlete wins a gold medal»

When a German athlete wins a gold medal in the games, GOLD BahnCard holders will ride free on ICE trains the following day.

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Edwards also points out that over 70 % of the athletes that won a gold medal in track and field events did so while wearing Nike gear, a helpful marketing buzz for a business that generates $ 5 billion in revenue for Nike at wholesale channels today.

As the first Singaporean athlete to ever win an Olympic gold medal, the 21 - year - old University of Texas student received a $ 753,000 bonus for the win, which he was able to accept as part of the allowable NCAA guidelines — but that's it, for now.

If he manages to win gold in all three races, his nine career gold medals would tie Paavo Nurmi and Lewis for the most by a track and field athlete.

Bonnie Blair becomes the first U.S. athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics in Albertville by striking gold it the women's 500 - meter speed skating.

The Russian team, which is officially being called Olympic Athletes from Russia as part of the IOC's punishment for doping violations, fulfilled its role as the favorite by winning the gold medal.

She's the first female athlete from Ireland to have won an Olympic gold medal and the first Irish swimmer to have won an Olympic medal of any sort.

The Olympic Athletes from Russia lived up to their billing as favorites in Pyeongchang with an exciting 4 - 3 overtime win over Germany in the gold medal game Saturday night.

Dr Stephanie Cook, who won a gold medal in modern pentathlon in 2000, said: «I hope that this incredible atmosphere provides some inspiration for the athletes that are training here today.

In 2015, she broke records by winning five gold medals at National Championships, which has never been done before by an athlete of any age.

The NCS Meet of Champions would serve as just a prelude to the CIF State Championships where she won gold medals in the triple jump and 100 hurdles, and continued her ascent as one of the best track and field athletes in the US.

With Lizzie Deignan replacing Romero, they successfully defended their gold medal the following year, before Rowsell Shand - who now sits on the British Olympic Association's Athletes» Commission - added further World titles in 2012 and 2014, also winning the individual pursuit in the latter year.

Watch Team GB athlete Madi Rowlands win the Gold medal at the second Winter Youth Olympic Games in the ladies freestyle ski halfpipe.

Rowlands» medal follows up her success in the halfpipe event earlier in the Games when her gold medal was the first ever won by a Team GB athlete on snow in the history of the Olympic and Youth Olympic Games.

The win makes Clarke the first ever British athlete to take gold in the men's K1 as well as the first to claim a medal in the event since Campbell Walsh picked up silver back at Athens 2004.

The six athletes will compete across four events in Brazil, looking to continue Team GB's strong track - record of shooting success having won 44 medals — 13 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze — in Olympic Games history.

A further three gold medals were won by British athletes on the fourth day of the IPC Athletics European Championships

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

American athletes who win gold medals are awarded $ 25,000 for each medal from the United States Olympic Committee.

Michael Johnson, the 4 - time Olympic Gold Medal winning sprinter, is standing by his assertion that black athletes have a «speed...

World class athletes like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Arnold Schwarzenegger (when he was a body builder), nine - time gold medal winning sprinter Carl Lewis and tennis legend Billy Jean King all practice visualization and credit a large part of their success to this mind - body practice as well.

These teams won the majority of the gold medals in Olympic weightlifting at the Olympic games in the 1980s and are therefore widely deemed to have the most effective approaches to training athletes for this sport (Zatsiorsky, 1992).

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.

The good news is that asthma can be overcome; many professional athletes have won gold medals and broken world records despite having asthma.

Frederick Carlton Carl Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal Visit for Winter Olympics live streams, highlights, schedules, results, news, athlete bios and more from PyeongChang 2018.

Frederick Carlton Carl Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal

He also set several world records and became the top Olympic gold medal - winning athlete of all time (with a total of 14).

Riding the crest of glory from that competition, Phelps subsequently participated in the 2005 World Championship games, where he netted five gold medals and one silver medal, then moved on to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, where he won eight more gold medals — the most ever won by an athlete at a single Olympics.

This biopic chronicles the courage of African - American athlete Wilma Rudolph, who overcame crippling polio to win three gold medals in track during the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

Occasionally Zac Efron's dimwit Olympic gold medal winning athlete turned disgraced rookie lifeguard will make a comment about how this is a job for the police, which is quickly dismissed as the elite squad of lifeguards try to take down the movie's big bad villain Priyanka Chopra and her plan to buy up beach real estate to smuggle drugs.

He's also proud of his two new films, the subtle romantic comedy «Tumbledown,» which opens Friday, and the historical drama «Race,» opening Feb. 19, in which he plays the coach of famed African American athlete Jesse Owens (Stephan James), who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.

Athletes from Team USA won eight medals, including five gold — the first of which went to 17 - year - old snowboarder Red Gerard.

He was the most successful athlete at the games and as such has been credited with single - handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy (although the host country won the most medals in the Games, 89 to 56 over the second - place United States, including 33 gold).

Russian athletes celebrate after winning the men's gold medal hockey game against Germany, 4 - 3, in overtime Feb. 25.

The team of new athletes joins national ambassadors, London 2012 Gold medallist Jessica Ennis - Hill, Olympic sprint legend Darren Campbell, and history making Olympic Gold medal winning boxer Katie Taylor, who is Sky Sports Living for Sport Ambassador in Ireland.

Fellow Athletes Craig Heap, Commonwealth gold medal winning gymnast and Sky Sports Living for Sport Athlete Mentor said about the event: «Get Inspired with Jessica Ennis - Hill was a triumph; it was rewarding to see the planning efforts of Sky Sports Living for Sport and the Youth Sport Trust really pay off with an event that had every adult and pupil in the venue wholly enthused by sport.

If Jesse Owens is rightfully the most famous American athlete of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, repudiating Adolf Hitler's notion of white supremacy by winning gold in four events, the gold - medal - winning effort by the eight - man rowing team from the University of Washington remains a remarkable story.

If an athlete wins a record breaking number of gold medals at the olympics should we say «ah that's enough now, let's give one to someone else»?

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John Baxter Taylor Jr. was the first African American athlete to win a gold medal.

She celebrated alongside Olympic champions, cheered her friends as they carried the torch into Whistler, watched Canada win a gold medal in hockey, stood at the sidelines of thrilling events and met athletes, fans and volunteers from around the world.

At the age of 16, she became the first American woman to win an all - around gold medal in gymnastics and was the first female athlete featured on the Wheaties cereal box.