Sentences with phrase «gold medalist»
A gold medalist is someone who has won first place in a sports competition, like the Olympics. They receive a shiny gold medal as a trophy for their exceptional performance. Full definition
-- Olga Korbut, USSR four - time Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics
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Sexual abuse of athletes has been in the news recently in the wake of claims by Deena Deardurff Schmidt, an Olympic swimming gold medalist at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, that between the ages 11 and 15 she was repeatedly molested by her swim coach.
After graduation, he spent 4 years working at the University of Calgary Sport Medicine center where he worked with many athletes ranging from young community athletes to many Olympic gold medalists from a variety of summer and winter Olympic sports.
She's a two - time gold medalist with USA Basketball Junior World Championship teams and in 2015 she led the Matadors to their second straight 30 - win season.
The 1968 Olympic gold medalist for Great Britain — and world record holder in the 400 meter hurdles — was also deep into his training for the 1972 summer Olympics, which would take place just two months after his graduation from the Ed School.
Seventeen - year - old Red Gerard (right), the first Team USA gold medalist of the Pyeongchang Games, gives Canadian silver medalist Max Parrot a high - five during the victory ceremony for men's snowboard slopestyle.
Mr. Cherniak graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School as Gold Medalist in 1960.
-- Summer Sanders, USA gold medalist in swimming
In a recent interview with People, the three - time gold medalist said that she is prioritizing this crusade for justice over her potential eligibility for the 2020 Olympics.
The defending gold medalist from Beijing, Samuel Wanjiru, died in 2011 after falling off a balcony at his home in Kenya, a death that still remains a mystery.
Recently, Nulo took its professional athletic connections to a new level, announcing its partnership with 23 - time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps.
This week, Towne Park's Corporate Office hosted some very distinguished guests — Towne Park's Valet Olympic Team and NVPA Valet Olympic Gold Medalists Matt Cardella, Nate Loughran, Jonathan Kissell, and Edgar Islas (also the Best Valet on the Planet with the best overall combined time at the Olympics), along with their coach Dashan Sanders.
Oscar Pistorius is «a broken man» who should not be jailed, a psychologist told a court sentencing the South African Paralympic gold medalist for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Three days of training in the areas of core training, swimming, biking and running with Sanctuary's team of dedicated fitness experts, including Olympic Gold Medalist Misty Hyman.
Sugar Ray Leonard is well served by Mike Trainer, and young Olympic gold medalist Mark Breland has an honorable handler in Shelly Finkel.
Chloe Kim is the 17 - year - old gold medalist everyone is talking about.
Rio teammates Biles, Laurie Hernandez and Gabby Douglas, the 2012 all - around gold medalist, were all discovered by coaches outside of the established elite pipeline.
In the last threeyears she has had to overcome vasculitis, an affliction that causes painfulinflammation of blood vessels, and the strain of her mother's kidney disease.But she is the reigning world champion and could become the oldest women «sfigure skating gold medalist since at least 1908.
On Monday night the sprinter was Carmelita Jeter, who at age 31 edged Veronica Campbell - Brown of Jamaica in 10.90 seconds to become the oldest 100 - meter gold medalist in world championship history.
Celebrities like Olympian Lolo Jones, gold medalist gymnast Simone Biles, and actress Vanessa Hudgens began sharing her workouts and product on their own accord.
Here's a safety wake - up call for outdoor adventure seekers: Six - time Olympic swimming gold medalist Amy Van Dyken - Rouen severed her spine in an all - terrain vehicle accident in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Friday.
«Danny, hands down, is the most influential skateboarder ever,» says Burnquist, a three - time X Games gold medalist in the vert discipline.
In the 200m, Bolt, the two - time defending Olympics gold medalist, won easily, crossing the line in 19.58 seconds (0.26 seconds behind his London time).
Coach Poliquin with Women's Wrestling Rio Olympian Yelena Sergeyevna Pirozhkova and Women's Wrestling Gold Medalist in the 53 kg division Helen Maroulis
A safety wake - up call for outdoor adventure seekers: Six - time Olympic swimming gold medalist Amy Van Dyken - Rouen recently severed her spine in an all - terrain vehicle accident.
Acacia's workouts include exhale spa's best - selling, critically - acclaimed Core Fusion series, Body by Bethenny with Bethenny Frankel, Tai Chi & Chi Gong Basics, Xtend Barre, Joy Bauer's Slimdown Workout, Keeping Fit, Strong Body, Bollywood Dance, as well as an upcoming workout from Olympic Gold Medalist Kristi Yamaguchi.
Millions of travelers will attend the summer games in Beijing, China Later this summer, millions of travelers from around the world will descend on the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China with hopes of seeing Gold medalists and exploring a fascinating new country.
A «flower girl» collects Winnie the Pooh stuffed animals thrown by fans of Japanese gold medalist figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu on Feb. 16, during the men's figure skating short program.
Vincent Hancock became the youngest gold medalist in international skeet in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
«I said to myself, Hicham, for people to look at you as a legend, you have to win this race,» El Guerrouj would say later, and he easily floated past Bekele in the final 50 meters to become the first 1,500 — 5,000 double gold medalist since Pavvo Nurmi in 1924.
His opponent, Darius Davison of Olivet (Mich.) College, was cheered on by his cousin Claressa Shields, a women's boxing gold medalist at the 2012 Olympics.
Body benefits: «When I get back in the sand after the off - season, I notice instant leg toning and booty lifting and more defined arms,» says three - time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings.
[10] Canadian Olympic officials» explanation for why snowboarding gold medalist Ross Rebagliati failed a test for marijuana in Nagano.
Former Canadian professional hockey center Mark Messier and Olympic skating gold medalist Sarah Hughes have joined in an effort by the Kingsbridge National Ice...
CNBC's Carl Quintanilla speaks with Olympic Gold Medalist Snowboarder Chloe Kim about her Twitter usage during competition, being a Korean - American and her various sponsorships.
In 2012, Woods started dating champion skier and Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn while she was going through a divorce with former U.S. Ski Team mate Thomas Vonn.
Olympian and WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne came out to Vogue just before the Olympics, while gold medalist Rafaela Silva followed suit on Brazilian media the day after her big win on home soil.
Unaware that acting on his convictions was a bad career move, former Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Peter Vidmar resigned from his position as chef de mission of the 2012 U.S. Olympic team.
Last week, however, the three - time Olympic gold medalist took on the money - raising challenge of her life.
When: February 19th Why: It's a little surprising that it's taken this long for Hollywood to produce a proper biopic about four - time Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens, especially considering his significance to American history, but he's finally getting his due in the generically titled «Race.»
Four years later he shot a short film at the Helsinki Games about U.S. weightlifting gold medalist John Davis.
Jim won NCAA titles in 1985 and 1986, and defeated two - time Olympic gold medalist John Smith — now the wrestling coach at Oklahoma State University — twice in the NCAA tournament, including their legendary championship bout in 1985.
Olympic gold medalist Charlie White and the Today Show's Savannah Guthrie made a bet before White's ice dancing event that if he...
Those times can be awesome, as gold medalist Greg Rutherford shows us.
His enthusiasm and relentless pursuit is a great example for the many of us who aren't gold medalists either.
Like all Olympians, International Taekwondo gold medalist Tyrone Robinson (above) is in training for London's 2012 Olympics.