Sentences with phrase «gold medalist of»

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.

Halloran offers these examples of brands who are the gold medalists of break time in this year's winter Olympics.

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I found myself sprinting back to my existing manufacturer faster than an Olympic gold medalist, with a huge backlog of orders.

And J.C. Penney gave a mom - friendly remix of the 1996 Blackstreet R&B hit «Go Diggity,» changing the lyrics to «Go Ligety,» — that would be 2006 gold medalist alpine skier Ted Ligety — to raise money for the U.S. Olympic Committee.

Shawn Johnson, Olympic gold medalist and star of CNBC's Adventure Capitalists, explains how to stay optimistic after big mistakes.

It is a privilege to be here at Berkeley, which has produced so many Nobel Prize winners, Turing Award winners, astronauts, members of Congress, Olympic gold medalists....

For every family that supports an gold medalist, there are thousands who never get within sniffing distance of the Olympics.

«Other athletes to test positive include: Semion Elistratov of Russia, an Olympic gold medalist in short - track speedskating; Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia, a world champion speedskater; Davit Modzmanashvili of Georgia, an Olympic silver medalist in wrestling; and Abeba Aregawi of Sweden, a world champion runner.»

Many retired medalists naturally gravitate towards motivational speaking gigs, inspiring those in other industries to go for their own version of gold.

Unless you've been living totally off the grid for the past 22 years, you know Venus Williams: ranked the world's No. 1 tennis player on three separate occasions; winner of 7 Grand Slam singles titles; winner of 14 Grand Slam doubles championships; 4 - time Olympic gold medalist... I could go on and on.

Economics and Gold Medalist) and a Master of Economics from the University of Alberta.

Actress Neve Campbell, authors Ann - Marie MacDonald and Farley Mowat, musicians Anton Kuerti and Jim Creeggan of the Barenaked Ladies, athletes Adam Kreek (Olympic Gold Medalist) and Andrew Ference (Boston Bruins defenceman), and political leaders Jack Layton of the NDP and Elizabeth May of the Green Party, are just a few of the many prominent Canadians to sign the letter.

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.

I like your idea that Jesus wants all of us to gold medalists.

Last week, however, the three - time Olympic gold medalist took on the money - raising challenge of her life.

AVP ManhattanBeach Open 2004 Olympic gold medalists Kerri Walsh (above, right) and Misty May - Treanor (left) have won eight of 10 tournaments this season.

Fully one quarter of the reigning Olympic gold medalists will play for Houston this season.

In Algeria, where supporters of a fundamentalist insurgency have machine - gunned to death women who wait unveiled for a bus, Hassiba Boulmerka, the gold medalist in the 1,500 meters at the»92 Games, moves in a cordon of bodyguards and carries a.38.

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.

Roman Šebrle of the Czech Republic — who won gold medalist at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens and held the world record in the event before Eaton came along — did not finish, withdrawing due to injuries.

Among the Games» lowlights were nine positive drug tests from gold medalists and the lack of a woman among the 207 Saudi athletes.

He outkicked Bernard Lagat to win the 1,500 here on Aug. 24 and on Saturday night sat patiently as the 10,000 - meter gold medalist — and 5,000 world - record holder — Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia set a sluggish pace in the 5K.»

Both the men's and women's tournaments kick off this Saturday and two of the biggest names in the sport will be looking to repeat as gold medalists.

Our Breakthrough Staff has trained some of the best players in the world that have gone on to become Olympic Gold Medalists, NBA All - Stars, WNBA All - Stars, Elite College Players (Michigan State, Duke, Kentucky ««to name a few), and Numerous Player of the Year Awards at the high school level.

While we can't technically speak to her credentials as a fine lass, we feel pretty safe in declaring her the Bay Area's most promising girls water polo talent since the graduation of another Danville native — Olympic gold - medalist Maggie Steffens.

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.

Early the nextmorning, Feb. 17, Mirhashemi finishes 91st in a field of 97 skiers in the 15KClassical, nearly 14 1/2 minutes behind gold medalist Andrus Veerpalu ofEstonia.

Died At age 75 of a heart attack, Parry O'Brien (left), a two - time Olympic gold medalist in the shot put.

For over 40 years the club has produced college soccer athletes at the NCAA Division I, III, III, and NAIA levels along with several Olympic Development Program players (boys and girls) at the District, State, Regional and National team levels, some of whom have played professionally, including an Olympic Gold Medalist.

«The worst thing [about playing] was missing my daughter's eighth - grade graduation,» says Griffith, 35, the MVP of the WNBA in 1999 and a two - time Olympic gold medalist.

He's now a two - time NBA champion, has played on three of the greatest teams ever and is a two - time Olympic gold medalist.

Says HBA middleweight and 1984 Olympic gold medalist Frank Tate,» «She takes care of us.

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.

The move brings Irving — a bonafide offensive superstar, NBA champion, four - time all - star and Olympic gold medalist — to Boston at the tender age of 25 years old.

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.

WRESTLING — MARK SCHULTZ of Palo Alto, Calif., gold medalist in the 181 - pound division at the 1984 Olympics, beat Bulgaria's Alexander Nanev 10 - 5 to win a gold medal in the same division at the world championships in Budapest, Hungary.

Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed, who were unbeaten together in the last edition of the event, knocked off Open champion Henrik Stenson and Olympic gold medalist Justin Rose in just 16 holes.

He has trained gold medalists dating back to Kevin Young (400 - meter hurdles) and Quincy Watts (400 meters) at the 1992 Olympics, and the steroid suspensions of several of his athletes have left the stain of controversy.

She had won eight World Cup slalom races in 14 months, more than any other racer, and she skied with graceful professionalism on her first run to take a.49 of a second lead over defending gold medalist Hoefl - Riesch.

The video board froze a giant green No. 1, confirming that Shiffrin, 18, had won the gold medal to become the youngest Alpine medalist in U.S. history and the youngest - ever winner — male or female — of any Olympic slalom.

A number of American athletes, then at the peak of their careers, would almost surely have been gold medalists in Moscow: notably, hurdlers Edwin Moses and Renaldo Nehemiah and swimmers Rowdy Gaines, Craig Beardsley, Tracy Caulkins and Mary T. Meagher.

On one side, there can be pressure to live up to the achievements of others, and that may be magnified with a three - time Olympic gold medalist attending to the same family barbecues.

Carver coached two of the gold medalists at last year's Wo

Thugwane, the 5» 2», 99 - pound maintenance worker from the Koornfontein coal mines whose inspired stretch drive in the Atlanta marathon made him South Africa's first black Olympic gold medalist, returned home last month to find himself the target of a rumored murder plot.

Clinics were offered at the prison by such noted coaches as Arthur Lydiard, who trained Olympic gold medalists Peter Snell and Murray Halberg, and Bill Dellinger of the University of Oregon to help inmates develop their running skills.

She will talk about growing up following the career of another former Carondelet and Terrapins swimmer turned Olympic gold medalist, Natalie Coughlin.

But after being edged out by eventual gold medalist, Australia's Aaron Wilson, in his semi-final, the world indoor runner - up had just a couple of hours to recover before taking on Scotland's Darren Burnett.

The aim is to open her road season at the Tour of the Reservoir on April 11, although King, team pursuit gold medalist at London 2012, admits next year's Olympics are not far from her mind.

The latest in our series of short videos celebrating women's sport, here Liz Johnson, Paralympic swimmer and gold, silver and bronze medalist tells us her Favourite Moment In Women's Sport.

The latest in our series of short videos celebrating women's sport, here Katherine Grainger, Olympic gold medalist, rowing, tells us her Favourite Moment In Women's Sport.