Sentences with phrase «broken world records»

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

The new «performance» wear — both the Tracer Light ($ 80 to $ 320) and Speedo's offering in the category, the LZR Racer ($ 290 to $ 550)-- did receive FINA approval, though the uproar surrounding some recently broken world records may make the regulators change their minds (or their procedures).

With support from his closest influencers, he not only raised funds and arranged meals for shelters, but he broke a world record for the most cereal donation at a single event.

The auction house broke a world record this spring with the sale of an 18 - karat gold, diamond - encrusted Himalaya Birkin for nearly $ 380,000.

The 19 - year - old U.S. swimmer, who earned five gold medals and broke world records, won't be partaking in any sponsorship deals since she's opted to enroll at Stanford University instead of going pro.

Rodrigo Koxa claimed the major prize at the Big Wave Awards in California after breaking the world record - surfing a 24.28 m (80ft) swell.

This spring the auction house broke the world record for the most expensive diamond ever sold at auction with the $ 71.2 million sale of the «Pink Star» diamond.

«Our Olympian and Paralympic athletes should be worried about breaking world records, not breaking the bank, when they earn a medal,» Schumer said in an August press release.

We might have broken the world record for having children close in age.

The animal was expected to break the world record for the size of a bunny.

Our expeditions are out to break world records.

An athlete who breaks a world record in the 100 - meter dash has not only achieved a goal for himself in surpassing a limit, but has defined a new historical limit, available to and a challenge for others.

Fun margarita - related facts: — Margaritaville broke the world record for the World's Largest Margarita (aptly named «Lucky Rita») on October 14, 2011.

«I know,» he said, «I can break the world record.»

Symmonds set out to break the world record on Tuesday, but he unfortunately came up short.

On Tuesday, Symmonds graduated to where the real action, is as he tried to break the world record in the Beer Mile.

I don't see anyone breaking the world record to sign a youngster who only got promoted to the first team this season.

Manchester United on the other spend the same amount of money on only one of their targets, breaking the World Record fee for a football player.

Just a bit more than six weeks after breaking the world record in the event, Eaton won gold in men's decathlon on Thursday at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing with 8,869 points.

Man u broke the world record by buying Pogba and co who brought them back to top 4.

Still needs to buy 3 more players and break the world record in bringing in a striker and we need a world class CD.

I can only assume that all the talk this summer about the Arsenal transfer target Kylian Mbappe who is also being linked with the likes of Real Madrid and was thought to be about to break the world record for a transfer fee, has gone to the heads of the people in charge at his French Ligue 1 club AS Monaco.

Having broken the world record transfer fee the last four times with the signings of Zinedine Zidane, Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and most recently Gareth Bale, Real Madrid certainly spend plenty of money.

PSG made waves in the transfer market by breaking Neymar out of his Barcelona contract, breaking the world record fee by some margin.

Despite that handicap, he became one of the world's premier throwers in the 1950s and»60s, breaking the world record six times and competing in four Olympics.

And also, agonizingly, he now needed to take only two more wickets (cricketese for putting a batsman out) to break the world record, held by Australia's Dennis Lillee, of 355 taken in Test matches.

«For Hicham to prove that he is the biggest athlete in history,» says Kada, «he has to break world records.»

Fifteen - year - old POKEY WATSON took the women's 200 - meter freestyle in 2:10.5, breaking the world record of 2:11.4 held by Martha Randall.

58:55 Time, in minutes and seconds, for Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia in Sunday's Rock»n' Roll Arizona half marathon, which broke the world record for that distance by 21 seconds.

So if the worst comes to the worst, I'd sell them to China and break the world record twice over.

«He trained and worked incredibly hard to achieve his success and break world records, but he also had to overcome the racism of the time and the controversies concerning his participation in the 1936 Olympics.

The French duo of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron just broke a world record at the European Championships, setting up what's likely to be a no - holds - barred gold medal showdown with Canadian favorites Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who took gold in 2010 and double silver in 2014 and broke their own world record for short dance to The Rolling Stones» «Sympathy For The Devil» at the 2017 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating.

In 2011 Jon was a member of the relay team which broke the world record and was named as Team GB's Opening Ceremony Flagbearer for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

I remember the days when we broke world records to sign players.

At the London 2012 Olympic Games, Rowsell Shand won her first Olympic gold medal, coming alongside Laura Kenny and Dani King, with the trio breaking the world record on six occasions en route to glory.

Manchester United broke the world record for the fee they paid for Paul Pogba this summer.

With rumours circulating that Liverpool are interested in bidding for top goalkeeping talents such as Alisson of Roma or Jan Oblak of Atletico Madrid, it's easy for fans to get carried away with the prospect of Liverpool possible breaking the world record fee spent on a goalkeeper.

The 2012 Olympic 800m champion, who clocked 1:40.91 to break the world record when claiming gold in London, won the world title over two laps in 2011 but was forced to miss the 2013 event through injury.

Woodward continues to brag privately that United can comfortably afford to break the world record for a transfer, which is currently the # 86m paid by Real Madrid to Tottenham for Gareth Bale.

Although Real Madrid continue to be heavily linked with Salah, with highly influential figures in his homeland hoping that he makes a switch to the Spanish giants in the future as they believe it would be a great boost for their country, French giants PSG are reportedly prepared to break the World record transfer fee for him which they set when they handed over # 198million to Barcelona for Neymar in 2017.

Having broken the world record transfer fee over the course of the summer, Paul Pogba has failed to catch fire at Old Trafford.

Welsh Premier League champions The New Saints have broken the world record for consecutive wins.

«I feel disappointed because I wanted to break the world record,» said Ayana, who added that the wind had been too strong.

Real Madrid and Paris St Germain are other sides that are keen on breaking the world record for the youngster.

The French giants broke the world record transfer fee by paying # 196million for Brazilian superstar Neymar from Barcelona.

«However, the [Don Balon] report also claims United are keen on the Uruguay international and are willing to break the world record fee again by spending up to # 135 million to secure his signature.»

The large lead group went through half way in 61:38 — eight seconds faster than Patrick Makau's split when he broke the world record last year.

Trans World Sport speaks to the world triple jump champion, who has his sights set on breaking the world record

It hasn't taken long for Spanish critics to start questioning the wisdom of Real Madrid breaking the world record transfer fee to sign Gareth Bale.

With only a year left on his contract, the Spaniard could walk away for free in the summer of 2016 — and that is unthinkable for a player who could break the world record transfer fee for a goalkeeper should Louis Van Gaal decide to cash in while he can.