Sentences with phrase «from decathlon»

I also bought the entry - level ski bag (# 8) to protect and carry the skis, as well as a basic pair of light - weight poles (# 10) with adjustable wrist strap, both from Decathlon.

During the last bout of snow, I ordered some snow boots from Decathlon (I had ordered them in the first lot of snow and then cancelled it because they wouldn't arrive in time, and then realised that I would probably use them a lot, even when marshalling at parkrun on cold days, so I re-ordered them).

CC: When Ashton Eaton retired from the decathlon, there was a feeling that because he had the world record, world championship gold and two Olympic golds, there wasn't much left for him to chase or accomplish in the sport.

Not exact matches

Josh Brown, Jon & Pete Najarian and honorary Halftimer Morgan Brennan are competing in the Wall Street Decathlon — working for your tips to raise money for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, at New York City's PHD rooftop lounge in the Dream Downtown Hotel from 6 - 9 pm.

TEMECULA, CA — Great Oak High School is celebrating a win from the weekend's Riverside County Academic Decathlon.

You can't, of course, pick a Derby winner from the results of a sprint, so it wasn't altogether too surprising to see that speed colt, Decathlon, run off with first money while Rex Ellsworth's entry of Terrang and Like Magic (first and fourth recently in the Santa Anita Derby) wound up fourth and sixth, just in front and back of Calumet Farm's Liberty Sun.

He is 25 now, and the people who have known him watched at first with delight and then with amazement as he grew from a sweet but forgetful party animal into the world decathlon champion.

Several former Olympians, among them runner Kip Keino, a two - time gold medalist from Kenya,»68 decathlon champion Bill Toomey of the U.S. and American marathoner Kenny Moore, who wrote the SI story, have taken up Wolde's cause.

For Eaton it was a successful defense of his decathlon gold from London, while Crouser continued a long United States tradition of men's shot put excellence — it was the Americans» third gold in that event in the last seven Games, and they've at least medaled every time since 1984.

At that time Toomey had just broken the American record in the decathlon, he was undefeated in world competition, he had been named the California Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press and he had received similar awards from France and Italy.

World decathlon record - holder Ashton Eaton picked up from where he left off in the heptathlon, clocking 7.64 in the 60m hurdles for a championship best, bettering the 7.68 mark set by himself in Istanbul two years ago to go nine points ahead of his five - event tally when setting his world record in 2012.

The son of Croatia's decathlon record holder Josko Vlasic, Nikola is from rich sporting stock.

When Claire takes returning champion Alex (Ariel Winter) to an academic decathlon, Claire is so busy bragging to the other moms about her daughter's brains that she cheers when Alex is eliminated from the competition and accidentally humiliates her daughter.

That's because the arrays will also allow Butte students to get real world training for the green jobs of tomorrow, much like the semiannual Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered houses.

Tom Pappas (now that he has officially retired from professional Decathlons) has now opened a CF studio himself, and I am sure he sees some benefit for most people (general population), but CF workouts are very different from what us decathletes do, and in my opinion are not ideal or even close to ideal for anyone looking for performance but mainly for fitness level.

Sam, of course, has his O.C. - style melodrama to contend with, since his rich kid adversary from the recent academic decathlon is flirting with his dream girl Laura (Emmy Rossum), while Sam's mom (Sela Ward) sits bedside with a young cancer patient in a cloying side - story (further ruined by Harald Kloser's prosaic score) meant to warm our frostbitten hearts.

Students from John Marshall High School in Los Angeles — where 80 percent of those enrolled learn English as a second language — won the sixth annual U.S. Academic Decathlon last week in Dallas.

Most of them looked at me dubiously as I pulled out the silver box of practice impromptu speech topics from Academic Decathlon, but they sat with their pencils at the ready.

The North High School Academic Decathlon Team from Des Moines, Iowa had its most successful year in a decade during the 2011 - 2012 school year.

Additionally, of the top 112 U.S. top charter high schools on the list, 43 were from California, and 18 in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) alone, including recent National Academic Decathlon winner Granada Hills Charter High and National Green Ribbon Award recipient Environmental Charter High.»

Quiz Bowl teams are new this year at the three middle schools in Burnsville - Eagan - Savage School District 191 and recently teams from Metcalf and Nicollet middle schools competed at the EMERALD (Edgewood Middle Entirely Raucous Academic Learning Decathlon) tournament hosted by Edgewood Middle School in Mounds View.

Students from another L.A. area school, Granada Hills Charter, traveled to our Nation's Capital, where they met with top education and local leaders to celebrate their recent National Decathlon Championship.

Photos by Michelle Kaufmann Over 4,000 students from around the world have their solar - powered homes on display for this year's Solar Decathlon.

This 2011 Solar Decathlon is currently on display at the National Mall's West Potomac Park, featuring solar - powered innovations from over 4,000 students.

The Solar Decathlon 2011 will be held at the National Mall's West Potomac Park from Sept. 23 to Oct. 2, 2011.

TheORA (O = Organic, R = Resilient, A = Adaptable) is an ambitious project proposal by Heriot - Watt University Dubai and expert advices from the Edinburgh campus are also provided whenneeded for the Solar Decathlon Middle East 2018 competition.

The first team from the Czech Republic to enter the Solar Decathlon is Team CTU, made up of 26 students who set their sights on designing and building a prototype for future housing while raising awareness of solar energy, energy efficiency, and Czech architecture and engineering.

One of four teams that are representing California in the 2013 Solar Decathlon, Team USC (from the University of Southern California) will be submitting its fluxHome, a net zero prototype, as an entry in the competition to be held in October 2013 in Irvine, California.

After Chameleon House returns to Missouri, it will help to raise awareness of solar energy in the state by being available for tours and research opportunities in the Solar Village, where previous Solar Decathlon entries from 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2009 serve as outreach assets and student housing.

That's the case with the Solar Decathlon House in Ithaca, New York, where the guys from Zero Energy Design (ZED) worked their butts to meet the criteria for a zero - energy residence.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon is a biennial competition challenging 20 student teams from universities around the world to design and build houses powered entirely by the sun.

Fourteen teams of architecture and engineering students from universities nationwide had arrived in Washington, D.C., for the Solar Decathlon, a Department of Energy - sponsored competition to build the ultimate solar - powered home of the future — sophisticated in design, super-efficient, and capable of generating enough solar electricity to meet the demands of a mainstream, energy - lavish lifestyle.

According to the press release we were sent by Joseph Cory, the summer of 2013 will be the first year that a team from Israel will participate in the Solar Decathlon competition.

Since ground broke on the Start.Home, the students who are designing and building the Stanford University entry in the 2013 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon have been learning their way around the construction site from five Carpenters Union instructors.

The team of student architects and engineers from Purdue appears to have chosen a solid strategy, as their pointedly suburban INhome has jumped into the top three in the first few days of the biennial Solar Decathlon competition.

This year's Solar Decathlon home design competition saw many fresh takes on the solar - powered prefab home, but Team New Zealand stood out from the pack with its elegant, light - filled, wood clad home.

Biennially since 2002, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has held the solar decathlon, a competition between 20 university teams from around the world that design, construct and operate homes that are affordable, energy efficient and attractive.

PHCA will host Ed May, team lead from the 2015 Solar Decathlon winning project, SURE HOUSE, to talk about how Passive House helped their project capture the Grand Prize.

Teams from colleges and universities across the globe participate in the Solar Decathlon.

(1) The Solar Decathlon held on the Mall in Washington, DC will be regarded in a century from now by subsequent generations with the same awe that we today regard the Paris Exhibition of 1867.

Lenny Antonelli takes a look at some of the entrants of the 2009 Solar Decathlon, a competition that challenges university teams from around the world to design and build homes that capture the sun's energy.

They hope that its gee - whiz technology will help them win the U.S. Department of Energy's biannual Solar Decathlon, which takes place this year from Oct. 3 - 13 in California.