Sentences with phrase «games gold medal»
After this castro added the 2011 Pan American games gold medal to her collection and collectively has five seven high
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He's amassed all kinds of trophies and records over the years, including two Olympic gold medals and four NBA All - Star Game MVPs.
Hundreds of gold medals are awarded during every Olympic games, and it's inevitable that some athletes — who, more often than not, won't get rich from their sport — wind up selling them.
Before this year's games, Berkeley students and alumni had won a combined 103 gold medals.
In a record - breaking win, the start weightlifter Mirabai Chanu secured the gold medal for India in weightlifting game.
After retiring with 18 gold medals at the end of the 2012 Olympic games, Phelps reflected:
«You can equate it to a gold medal hockey game: Canada and the United States are playing, but all of the referees are from the U.S.,» said Andrea van Vugt, vice president for North American affairs at the Business Council of Canada, a group representing about 150 companies.
We play pretty good games of golf and tennis at our own clubs, and in 1972 Mark Spitz became the first Jew, as the joke goes, ever to win seven gold medals at the Olympic Games.
The hosts get creative with delicious snow - inspired crafts, and in honor of the Winter Olympics, figure skater Sasha Cohen stops by for Geoffrey's Gold Medal Hot Tequila Toddy and a Winter Warm - Up game.
The husband and I got up at 3 am to go to our friend's house with other crazy, hockey lovin Canadians to watch the Men's Gold Medal Game.
If you don't think that hockey is really that big of a deal in Canada, just watch these scenes of Canadians freaking out during the women's Olympic hockey gold medal game.
The gold medal game was a civic event — hockey is the thread that sews together the patches of Canada's cultural quilt — that begged to be shared among those of the maple - leaf persuasion.
Abandoning that smoke screen upon reaching the gold medal game against none other than powerful Spain — and the rematch everyone had been awaiting for so long, or at least since six days earlier when the U.S. squeaked out a 101 - 68 thriller — Knight had the gall to say the Americans had come through «the toughest draw.»
It still would have been sweet redemption for an overtime loss to Canada in the gold medal game in Sochi.
He went on to make the U16 team, fly out to Argentina and start four of five games on the way to a gold medal for the United States.
Matt's love of the game started early as the son of John Clawson, winner of both a gold medal for Team USA at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and an ABA Championship with the Oakland Oaks in 1969.
In Ken Morrow, who now has played for all the Islander Cup champions and an Olympic gold medal winner, New York has one of the best defensive defensemen in hockey (three goals in 123 games).
Janet Macfarlane, a 17 - year - old Gridley, Calif. sprinter, began her second year of competitive track by winning three gold medals and setting three new marks — the long jump and the 100 - and 220 - yard dashes — at the Western U.S. Women's and Girls» games.
Bronze medal game: Canada 6, Czech Republic 4 Gold medal game: Olympic Athletes from Russia 4, Germany 3 (OT)
Along with his jersey, he is selling his stick that he used to score the game - winning goal, and his blue USA Hockey jersey that he wore against Finland in the Gold Medal game.
The handball competition will begin on August 6, and the women's gold medal game will be held on Saturday, August 20 with the men's final taking place the next day.
Earlier in the week, on Valentine's Day, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean of Great Britain won the gold medal in ice dancing — as was expected — but Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert, the No. 1 U.S. ice dancers, four - time national champs and world bronze medalists, were euchred out of an Olympic medal in a game of musical snooker.
Genai was a member of the United States Men's National Water Polo Team for 12 years and played in the 2004 Athens Olympics, 2003 & 2007 Pan American Gold Medal games, and multiple World Championships.
The men's gold medal game is set for Sunday, August 21st, with the women's final taking place on Saturday, the 20th.
Russia, as a 5 - seed, will have to play an extra game if they're to get into the Gold Medal game yet they remain the second favorite ahead of both USA and Sweden.
This was about hockey, not the passport, a point Jeremy Roenick of the U.S. tried to make on the eve of the gold medal game when he noted, «My favorite player is Steve Yzerman, and he's Canadian.»
However, the numbers that count, as hockey continues the battle to establish itself as something more than NASCAR of the North, will be the ones that emerge over the next 20 years, when kids who watched the gold medal game start playing and become involved in the sport.
The 32 players in the gold medal game who were facing a teammate are now answering the siren call of dollars.
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.
The American women have been on the losing side of the gold medal game against Brazil twice in a row.
That changed in the gold medal game, as Canada clawed within two with five minutes left.
These games were the first for several members of a newly reconstituted U.S. team that will attempt to win a third straight Olympic gold medal.
On Friday the U.S. broke open a 5 - 3 game with an eight - goal rally through the second and into the third quarter to beat the Canadians 18 - 9 and win the gold medal.
The Americans» 3 - 2 loss to Norway in the 2000 Olympic gold medal game could be explained away as an undeserved result in a classic encounter.
The last time they medaled was in Beijing during the 2008 games, when they took home silver after a 14 - 10 loss to Hungary in the gold medal game.
They captured their first gold medal in the 2012 games by beating Spain 8 - 5.
Croatia took home the gold in 2012, while Serbia bested Montenegro in the bronze medal game for the second straight Olympics.
Instead, he played a lead role in a gold medal win, saving his only double - double of the tournament for the final game.
The U.S. faces Spain on Tuesday, a team that features the brothers Pau and Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka, in what is anticipated to be a preview of the gold medal game yet again.
As the Women's College World Series opens in Oklahoma City, softball is soaring in popularity thanks to taut games, TV and a U.S. gold medal
Back in 2010, Valanciunas led Lithuania to a gold medal in the FIBA Europe Under - 18 championship while averaging 19.4 points, 13.4 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game.
Now that the U.S. got by Argentina and Spain, Coach K's team is on to the gold medal game.
The U.S. defeated the Czech Republic 21 - 14 in the gold medal game, closing the contest on an 8 - 1 run after the teams played to a 13 - 13 tie with 3:30 left to play.
The ultimate goal of the programme is to select and develop a women's Sevens team to contest for a gold medal in the Rio de Janeiro Summer Games in 2016, when the game makes its Olympic debut for both men and women.
The USWNT's road to Gold assuming they win their group will go: Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Manaus, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and the Gold Medal game in Rio de Janeiro.
In order to win the Gold Medal a team will play six games in 17 days spread out over the entire country of Brazil.
Now this is a different ball game and Brazil will go into the gold medal game slightly favorite.
(see picture at right of me and Caitlin at Fenway) Later, I was there in person to watch the U.S. women's national team put up a valient effort against host Canada in the gold medal game.
She also won a gold medal and two bronze medals in previous Winter X games.
Coming with a record 8 gold medals won at the Rio Paralympics game the Nigerian team returned Sunday evening to a warm reception by highly elated Nigerians.