Sentences with phrase «athletes competed on»

The length of a marathon was at first not fixed, since all that was important was that all athletes competed on the same course.

This season, we look forward to watching our athletes compete on a level playing field with some of the more established gyms in the area.»

The world's best Paralympic athletes compete on Saturday just before the second day of Diamond League action begins.

Friday Night Lights is a film about high school football in Texas in which student athletes compete on Friday nights before large crowds.

Not exact matches

«With our analysis and predictive models, Own the Podium will be able to make new funding decisions that will better help Canadian athletes train, compete and dominate on the world stage,» said Canadian Tire senior vice-president Duncan Fulton in a press released this week.

«North Korean athletes are competing on the world stage, even if they're not winning,» said Martyn Williams, a North Korea media watcher and creator of the North Korea Tech website.

At UNC — much as athletes need a minimum GPA to remain eligible to compete — each Greek house needs to achieve a minimum average GPA among its members to maintain university recognition and stay on campus.

I'm a serious athlete, and I've counted on LLL to make me feel great and look good while I'm competing or training, and I've been having a really hard time finding fitness apparel that is as good as LLL.

Travis Tygart, president of the USADA, said in a statement, «This is a heartbreaking example of how the win - at - all - costs culture of sport, if left unchecked, will overtake fair, safe and honest competition, but for clean athletes, it is a reassuring reminder that there is hope for future generations to compete on a level playing field without the use of performance - enhancing drugs»...

350 of Oxford's finest athletes, all of whom competed in a Varsity Match against Cambridge this year, came together on Tuesday evening to be awarded their Full Blue, Half Blue and Colours certificates at «The 2014 Blues Presentation Evening».

The goal of the All American Sports Academy is to train and educate all student athletes on the correct physical skills and mechanics needed to compete at all levels, as well as understand the proper practice habits and time management skills needed to improve their game.

i appreciate the updates and keeping tabs on k - state athletes who might compete on the olympic stage, but it really doesn't go beyond that for most.

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius, the first athlete to compete in both the Paralympic and Olympic Games, qualified for the 400m semifinals in London on Saturday.

If you're willing to accept the fact that American riders in the early aughts were competing on a relatively level playing field with regards to doping, then you have to accept that, perhaps, they were just a special group of individual athletes.

Super talented athletes going very, very fast down a large hill (and sometimes a normal hill), and then jumping in ways that you couldn't do on purpose if you tried unless you happen to be one of the athletes competing this year, in which case, good luck on whichever size hill you jump off.

St. Francis softball coaching staff will support student athletes in developing the proper skills necessary to compete in softball on a competitive level: fielding infield and outfield, hitting, throwing, and a variety of bunting techniques.

The adult programs focus on preparing the adult athlete to compete at the professional and international level.

There's no way our players weren't affected by the embarrassment, and as professional athletes these guys possess a will to compete and win and get better all the time, so hopefully those losses will spur (not spud) us on to greatness this season.

«I feel really privileged to be a part of it, and being from Guernsey gives a great opportunity for athletes to compete on a world stage.»

350 of Oxford's finest athletes, all of whom competed in a Varsity Match against Cambridge this year, came together on...

Williams is a gifted athlete who plays above the rim naturally, and when he's competing he's a load for opponents on the glass.

Reason why Team Samawi can win it all — If they can get their full crew to the diamond, they have enough athletes to compete with anyone on any given night.

MISSION VIEJO, CALIF. — Some of the best athletes on the West Coast gathered Sunday to compete in the Under Armour All - America Camp's L.A. tour stop for a chance to go to the Under Armour All - America Game.

Sitting on a fence as the rally neared its end, Ibtihaj Muhammad — an Olympic fencer who was the first American to compete in the games wearing a hijab — spoke about the role of athletes at this moment of immense protest.

In a sporting context, such a dismissal amounts to an assault on the foundational idea that the game, at its heart, is a group of athletes competing in a mutually appreciated spirit.

The Unified races will be one of the many highpoints of Bay Area Games as more than 500 Special Olympics Northern California special education student - athletes compete in track & field events on Tuesday at Acalanes High School in Lafayette.

Playing on the division - three level, Joseph hasn't exactly competed against future NFL athletes, either.

Sir Chris Hoy, Britain's joint most successful Olympic athlete of all time, said: «We've had a great eight years with Sky and now with HSBC UK making a long term commitment to British Cycling, it's going to help anyone who wants to get on a bike to have fun, get fit, go to work or school, or compete right up to the very highest levels of international sport.»

Bolt's participation at the London Diamond League event, which takes place on July 24 - 25, follows the news that international athletes competing at the Anniversary Games will be exempt from paying income tax.

He's an avid wrestler and athlete, and he wanted to compete in the boys» wrestling league, but Texas rules require students to compete on the teams that align with the sex listed on their birth certificates.

I, on the other hand, would love to spend the weekend cheering on Team USA and marveling at all of the awesome athletes competing in the Summer Games.

The problem, as Paul S. Echlin, M.D. of the Elliott Sports Medicine Clinic in Burlington, Ontario, Canada and author of the Canadian study, points out, is that the «young athlete is often caught between competing demands of the adults around them» and «sometimes make decisions based on the adult whom they perceive to have the most influence on their success, and also whom they wish most to please for a variety of reasons.»

Whether they play on the same team, compete as opponents or play different sports, each child will seek their parents» attention and want to be recognized as the better athlete.

Use these tips to help your young athletes manage their vegetarian diets so they are properly fueled to compete on game day.

Young athletes with overuse injuries typically play on competitive teams or compete in an individual sport at a competitive level, have done so since an early age, and, more often than not, play that sport continually, twelve months a year.

Troy Calhoun, the head football coach at the U.S. Air Force Academy, on helping young athletes learn, improve and savor competing

Many Canadian athletes compete in multiple sports, so having our sport organizations on the same page about concussion is critical to ensure our athletes are managed properly.

At the same time we want to make sure we're not competing and putting student athletes at risk, when they shouldn't be on the playing field.

He will also give a short presentation on his experience of competing in five consecutive Olympics and the importance of adequate hydration and nutrients in the performance of athletes.

Players compete by selecting teams of individual athletes and earn points based on their collective statistical performances.

His baffling case serves as a reminder that four years after South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius propelled himself into history as the first amputee Olympic athlete to compete using blade prostheses, the technology's impact on performance remains unclear despite ongoing research.

In addition, the psychologist will probably be involved in life - style management training in which help is given to make sure aspects external to the professional life of athletes don't have a negative impact on their training or competing.

When he heard about the other athletes heading to Athens, his son John — a crack pistol shot — decided to go and compete in the shooting events that were also on the program for the Modern Games.

Investigators found a vast and intricate system of cheating, centered on a lab in Moscow that was responsible for drug testing athletes who reside and compete in Russia.

In order to compete, athletes must give up their privacy, notifying officials of their whereabouts every single day of the year, so they can be located for on - the - spot, out - of - competition testing overseen by the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA.

Individual athletes should compete on at least national championship level and / or in national teams to be defined as top - level athletes.

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Several Paralympians — some of the best athletes with disabilities from around the world, will compete in the 12th Annual Kessler Foundation Wheelchair 10K, the wheelchair division of the Fred d'Elia Ridgewood Run, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28.

These junior athletes with disabilities compete on the international level.

Even through all of my training programs over the years, I have never amassed the hulking physique and Herculean strength to compete at that level, but thankfully, strongman training is not solely reserved for the uber - athletes on television.

Of course there are plenty of reasons athletes may want to cut weight - they may wish to compete at a lower weight class next season, they may wish to remove excess mass to aid in speed or climbing ability, they may be looking to diet for bodybuilding competitions, and so on and so forth.