Sentences with phrase «in decathlon»

It's like Usain Bolt in a decathlon.

If your group of adult friends has grown tired of traditional board games, you'll want to get a copy of The Wine Games to play in a decathlon of unique, wine - themed activities.

After searching for a new winter coat, I finally found this khaki one in Decathlon.

A combo of both sprints and long distance running are needed because while his events in the decathlon are short sprints, the decathlon as a whole is a true test of endurance.

After five events in the decathlon, world silver medallist Damian Warner sits top with 4424 points.

In the decathlon, Canada's world silver and Olympic bronze medallist Damian Warner will be making his fifth appearance in Götzis and will be going for his third win, having previously claimed victory in 2013 and 2016.

During that time, the team set every possible World Record in the decathlon, highlighted by Dan O'Brien's gold - medal victory in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

1912 Prodigious Jim Thorpe won gold medals in decathlon and pentathlon at Stockholm but, accused of professionalism, was forced to return them.

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.

«I think it would only take me three weeks to get in good enough shape to go over 8,000 points in the decathlon,» he says.

For years Toomey and Hodge have been rivals in the decathlon and for years Toomey has consistently beaten him.

«If I can't make it in the broad jump, maybe I can in the decathlon.

Ashton Eaton readies to run a 110m Hurdles heat in the decathlon.

# 40 Floyd Simmons CHARLOTTE UNC's greatest all - around athlete won bronze in decathlon at 1948 and»52 Olympics; played fullback for Tar Heels.

Statewide, more than 5,000 students were expected to be involved in the decathlon competition this year.

«EarthScope needs to create the next generation of athletes to compete in the decathlons of the future — not in single events,» he says.

Not exact matches

Two - time Olympic champion, Ashton Eaton, holds the world record in both the decathlon and indoor heptathlon.

Halftime's traders are competing in the Wall Street Decathlon but first they mixed drinks for a good cause!

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.

Alibaba also recently said it was strengthening its collaboration with more than 160 international apparel brands — among them Zara, Uniqlo, Gap, Decathlon and Adidas — in areas such as digital marketing, big - data consumer analysis, and O2O sales.

The California champion will advance to the United States Academic Decathlon set for April 19 - 21 in Frisco, Texas.

Elsinore will once again represent Riverside County at the California Academic Decathlon in Sacramento on March 22 - 25, 2018.

The high school placed among the top scorers in this year's Riverside County Academic Decathlon.

Decathlon, in first start as 3 - year - old, slogged through mud into early lead, held on grimly under urging of Jockey Gene Martin to nose out Liberty Sun in $ 23,775 Hibiscus Stakes at Hialeah Park, Fla..

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.

In 1992, Muhammad Oliver finished fourth at the NCAA decathlon championship.

It marks the first time Americans went 1 - 2 in the Olympic decathlon since Milton Campbell and Rafer Johnson accomplished the feat in 1956.

Eaton becomes the second consecutive American to win men's decathlon, following Bryan Clay's gold medal in Beijing.

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.

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.

# 37 Milt Campbell PLAINFIELD As a high school senior, finished second in 1952 Olympic decathlon; won event in» 56.

Whether he is eligible or not, Toomey keeps working out, just in case, and he is still a keen student of the decathlon, so he encourages everyone to join him.

On a recent weekday evening Bill Toomey, the 1968 Olympic decathlon champion and world - record holder, was having dinner in his new home in Goleta, Calif., near Santa Barbara.

Our representation in golf (Tiger Woods, Mickey Wright) and tennis (Billie Jean King, Jack Kramer, Helen Wills Moody, Pete Sampras, the Williams sisters) may not surprise you, but how about our success in figure skating (Peggy Fleming, Michelle Kwan, Kristi Yamaguchi), NASCAR (Jeff Gordon) and the decathlon (Rafer Johnson, Bob Mathias)?

In high school Jackson did things like twist his ankle while winning the state title in the triple jump (48» 8 1/4») and then come back the same day to set a state record (9.54) in the 100 - yard dash; like throw a discus 149 feet without spinning his body, because he'd never been taught the proper form; like win the state decathlon crown his junior and senior years without running the mile, the final event, because «distance is the only thing I hate about track.&raquIn high school Jackson did things like twist his ankle while winning the state title in the triple jump (48» 8 1/4») and then come back the same day to set a state record (9.54) in the 100 - yard dash; like throw a discus 149 feet without spinning his body, because he'd never been taught the proper form; like win the state decathlon crown his junior and senior years without running the mile, the final event, because «distance is the only thing I hate about track.&raquin the triple jump (48» 8 1/4») and then come back the same day to set a state record (9.54) in the 100 - yard dash; like throw a discus 149 feet without spinning his body, because he'd never been taught the proper form; like win the state decathlon crown his junior and senior years without running the mile, the final event, because «distance is the only thing I hate about track.&raquin the 100 - yard dash; like throw a discus 149 feet without spinning his body, because he'd never been taught the proper form; like win the state decathlon crown his junior and senior years without running the mile, the final event, because «distance is the only thing I hate about track.»

Indeed, in 1924, Bowers finished 11th in the U.S. Olympic trials for the decathlon.

• Bruce Jenner, decathlon gold medalist, after breaking his leg in a motorcycle accident: «Thank goodness this didn't happen a year ago.

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.

Besides recent state - title runs in girls volleyball, football, cross country and basketball, the Campolindo Academic Decathlon team recently won a national championship.

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.

A look at some of the latest performances by British athletes, including a Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris win by David Weir and a decathlon PB by Tim Duckworth in the USA

Another Brit who will face tough opposition is the in - form Niall Flannery in the 400m hurdles where this season's world No. 1 Javier Culson — victorious in Lausanne — and Olympic decathlon champion Ashton Eaton also go.

The Canadian got his competition off to a record - breaking start as he ran the 100m in 10.15 for the quickest time ever recorded as part of a decathlon.

«Volume One: Great Moments of Track and Field» includes Jesse Owens» victories before a hostile audience in Berlin (1936); Wilma Rudolph's triumphs in Rome (1960), in spite of her childhood battle with polio; and Bruce Jenner's record - breaking decathlon performance in Montreal (1976).

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.

Decathlon is probably one of the best sport shops we have here in Portugal.

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).

Last Tuesday night I went on a lake cruise with the Windy City Blogger Collective and then on Thursday I participated in a Nike event where we did their version of a decathlon.

In between each death - defying sequence, Sam puts the moves on Laura (Emmy Rossum), the hot chick on his academic decathlon team.

Her performance is thrilling, most obvious in the notes she adds to Atwood's dense, almost musical dialogue — it's a verbal decathlon so rich it rewards repeat viewings.