Sentences with phrase «axel of»

245 section tires sounds a little small for the rear axel of rear engined sports car?

Gus Van Sant's Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot was one such film, earning warm early reviews; the biopic about artist John Callahan stars Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara, a triple axel of awards - bait talent.

It's the triple axel of based - on - true - story movies.

Not exact matches

Below is how the historic triple axel performance looked, as captured by a series of images by Getty photographers stationed at various points throughout Gangneung Ice Arena.

This solid board clips to the back wheel axel and leaves plenty of room for long legs behind the pushchair, while remaining sturdy and roomy for the little passenger.

Show off your salchows, lutzes and axels at one of the area's many indoor ice skating rinks.

BALTIMORE — Most mathematicians are more interested in double integrals than triple axels, but one team of number crunchers is concerned that the International Skating Union's new rules for awarding marks for competitive figure skating may fall flat on their face.

The digitalized images are processed (axel - adjusted and tissue edges defined) and regions of interest (ROIs) are then marked according to the table above.

The sense that her only true joy comes from being the best is infectious, and most dazzlingly rendered in a CG - enabled, ZZ Top - soundtracked, single - shot recreation of the 1991 skate where Harding lands the first triple axel by an American woman in competition.

Harding, the movie reminds us, was a phenom, an athletic skater who was the first female to land a triple axel in competition, and, to this day, is one of only six women to do so.

By the time she reached the peak of her skills in the early 1990s, Tonya became the only American woman to land a triple axel, the most difficult triple jump in the sport.

After conquering the triple axel — the mega-tricky jump which Harding was the first American woman ever to land — her electrified delight, arms outstretched, is a near - terrifying display of public vindication, of I - just - showed - them - that.

Her eureka moment arrives while heckling televised figure skating, and her subsequent study in the aerodynamics of the sport inevitably leads her out onto the ice, where she discovers an aptitude for double Axels and triple loops.

With its convincing depictions of Margo Robbie [apparently] executing Harding's signature triple axel in mind - blowing competition figure skating sequences, «I, Tonya» (written by screenwriter Steven Rogers) adopts a narrative style that flips between direct - to - camera confessionals and straight - ahead drama.

Tonya asserts her dominance on the ice, mastering the nearly impossible triple axel, but rejecting the wholesome image of the sport with her heavy metal music and confrontational outbursts.

She may be the best figure skater, and the only one brave enough to achieve the complex acrobatics of a triple axel, but the judges are shown to be prejudiced against her lower - class origins, scoring her low due to their unwillingness to have their precious sport represented by the likes of Tonya.

That Harding was able to achieve such amazing feats on ice — including the triple axel, which most skaters avoided because of its difficulty — is testament to her inner drive to rise from a life of poverty, survive a cycle of abuse, overcome class bias, endure countless hours of practice, and rely on her talent to achieve a better life.

Like the triple axel, there is a high degree of difficulty here.

As a result, despite being the first American female skater to land the triple axel, something that is incredibly hard to do, she was not the type of person who the ice skating world wanted to represent them in international competitions.

Mirai Nagasu of the United States exults after landing a triple axel during the team figure skating event.

For those of you who don't know, Tonya Harding was the first female ice skater to land a triple axel in competition, but her legacy has been mostly overshadowed by her role in the assault on a fellow skater, Nancy Kerrigan.

Despite winning the 1991 US Championships when she became the first woman to successfully execute the gravity - defying triple axel, Harding's place in sports history is one of ignominy because of her suspected complicity in the clumsy attempt by her abusive husband Jeff Gillooly (played by Sebastian Stan) to hobble her elegant rival Nancy Kerrigan before the 1994 Winter Olympics.

The moment when Harding becomes only the second woman in history to land the triple - axel jump is real hairs - on - the - back - of - the - neck stuff, though the jump had to be recreated with visual effects because the only two skaters who can currently do it were both preparing for the Olympics and couldn't risk injury.

If «I, Tonya» is supposed to be a corrective to two decades of tabloid fascination with Harding and her role in the assault of figure skating competitor Nancy Kerrigan — as characters frequently break the fourth wall to tell us, either in faux - documentary interview sequences or in the middle of scenes — it doesn't quite stick the landing of that particular triple axel.

She was the ice princess who emerged from a poor upbringing and rough childhood in Portland, OR to rise to the top of the sport of figure skating with a ferocious determination and athleticism that allowed her to become the first American woman to complete the triple axel in major competitions.

Harding emerged from a poor upbringing and rough childhood in Portland, OR to rise to the top of the sport of figure skating with determination and athleticism that allowed her to become the first American woman to complete the triple axel in major competitions.

As it turns out, Creech is something of an engine, using its tentacles to spin the truck's axels.

Tonya dropped out of high school and devoted every day to mastering moves like the triple - axel, which she became the first skater to master.

[POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: The audio of this story incorrectly states that Tonya Harding landed the first triple axel in Olympics competition history.

I'm talking a tsunami of dancing — pirouetting, cartwheeling, tapping, triple axel spinning, head - over-heels hurtling — DANCING that just doesn't quit.

Harding, assailed on all sides for being white trash; for being the wrong vision of feminine physicality; for being an overblown tabloid tale, Gillespie still shows us, and underscores that Harding was a dedicated, talented athlete ---- her execution of the triple axel amidst competition is rightly the stuff of legend and is shown here with the right kind of Silver Screen esprit.

Margot Robbie delivers a triple axel portrayal of rough character / world class ice skater Tonya Harding.

Robbie turns her features hard — and her attitude harder — to play the queen of the triple axel.

Beneath the credits for I, Tonya, a grainy video of Tonya plays, nailing the difficult triple axel move at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championship (making her the first American woman to do so in a competition), which the film dramatizes about 40 minutes into its run time.

Even if much of it was to nurture the natural skating talent Tonya had (she was one of the only skaters in the world to consistently complete triple axels), none of this happened without causing severe damage.

And then along comes Tonya Harding, clomping onto the ice in clownish makeup and garish costumes hand - sewn by her mother, attacking her routine to the sounds of ZZ Top's «Sleeping Bag» — and knocking the wind of out the skating world by becoming the first woman to nail a triple axel.

Her grand feat, of course, is the triple axel: an awesomely extended spin through the air that she was the first American figure skater to bring off at an international event.

«I was loved,» Tonya says of landing that triple axel.

Tonya didn't possess many of the qualities the snobby figure skating world expected from its stars — she was more athlete than ice capades — but her talent was undeniable when she became the first American female skater to ever land a triple axel at the 1991 World Championships.

In that same interview, she highlighted an anecdote that serves as a reminder that being an «Olympic also - ran» still means being one of the most skilled athletes on the planet; when producers hunted around for a skating double to recreate Harding's most famous, non-scandal-related professional accomplishment — executing a triple axel in competition at the 1991 U.S. Championships — they were flatly told that it was essentially impossible to find someone capable of matching the feat.

In a sport of princesses, Tonya Harding was the perpetual toad: a trashy, too - brash outsider whose mind - blowing axels and sheer athleticism could never quite make up for the fact that she didn't fit the demure, spangled mold of an ideal figure skater.

Despite her terrifying mother and her mercurial husband, Harding becomes a skating sensation thanks to her athleticism and her mastery of the nigh - impossible triple axel.

There is no doubt we come to understand more about Harding than the tabloid coverage of the time offered: her lower - class roots, which made her stand out among the other skaters, even as a child; her endurance of domestic abuse, first at the hands of her mother (Allison Janney) and then her eventual husband and conspirator Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan); her sheer talent, including a history - making triple axel.

Robbie's narration over a few key points (like her triumphant triple axel display) recall a few of Kidman's in Gus Van Sant's masterpiece.

Director Craig Gillespie (REAL GIRL) and writer Steven Rogers (HOPE FLOATS) take this idea and skate on the edge, right along with Tonya who becomes the first woman to land a triple axel in competition as well as the most reviled figure in all of skating.

There's also a new active AWD system, biased to rear - wheel drive but capable of pushing power to the front axel when required.

Our Crew Cab are outfitted with Cab To axel length 60» and a Total Wheel Base Length of 145.5 for our single rear wheel trucks, and a Wheel Base Length of 172.4 on our commercial crew cab dually.

The dash features an aluminum double - brow trim panel with an axel - spin finish that is unique to this car, in addition to another 50th Anniversary badge placed on the passenger side of the dash.

I wanted an explanation of why or how this major axel collapse occurred, and John Lafrancesa looked me in the eyes and said his mechanic insinuated that I intentionally did something to my vehicle.

The axel shaft and housing collapsed and caused the rear wheels of the vehicle to come to a dead stop while I was traveling highway speed, nearly causing a major accident.