Sentences with phrase «many gold medals»

Fast - forward a week or so, and she'd won a gold medal, after beating the world Nos. 2 and 3 and making it three rounds further than presumptive victor Serena Williams.

While there are still just a small number of brewers, that's changing — and they're winning major awards, like NoDa's Hop Drop «N Roll, which took home a gold medal from the 2014 World Beer Cup.

She didn't have an Olympic gold medal and she had a respectable number of followers on Twitter, but nothing especially jaw - dropping.

In 2000, she and Venus won gold medals in the doubles event at the Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Better known to many as «Lord Coe,» the IAAF's new leader is a former British track superstar who won four Olympic gold medals in the 1980s.

• Horizon Services acquired Gold Medal Service, a Sewell, N.J. - based waste and recycling services company, and Casteel Heating & Cooling, a Marietta, Ga. - based heating and air conditioning company.

Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo's post congratulating Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt on his gold medals was the most popular non-video post, according to Facebook.

He's amassed all kinds of trophies and records over the years, including two Olympic gold medals and four NBA All - Star Game MVPs.

With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and gymnastics gold medal favorite Simone Biles looking on, seven - times grand slam winner Williams won the first set but became frustrated as the match wore on, losing 4 - 6 6 - 3 7 - 6 (5) to the world number 62.

She resumed athletics as a wheelchair basketball player, starring on the U.S. gold medal - winning team at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, then took up alpine skiing, winning two gold metals, a silver and a bronze in Vancouver and this past weekend a silver in Sochi.

Adrian Nazari, founder and CEO of CreditSesame.com, which offers free credit - analyzing tools for consumers, sees parallels between Olympic athletes» preparations chasing a gold medal and consumers preparing their credit score to apply for a mortgage or a refinance.

The program was organized after Russia finished in 11th place with just three gold medals at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, its worst performance since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The gold medal hopeful talks about the upcoming Olympic Games and her new job selling lipstick for CoverGirl.

But with everything going on right now, I realize that this is more important than any gold medal.

(The judges at the World Beer Cup agree, having awarded it a gold medal in 2014.)

Whatever the cause, Williams opened defense of her Olympic singles gold medal with a patchy - at - times 6 - 4, 6 - 2 victory over Australia's Daria Gavrilova on Sunday, gesturing or yelling at herself as she often does when not all goes her way.

The loss will not be the end of the competition for 2000 Sydney Games champion Williams, however, as the 36 - year - old is bidding to win her fourth doubles gold medal with sister Serena.

Founder of The Factory Agency, he represents several Paralympians, including Taylor Lipsett, who despite suffering from a serious bone disease is a member of the U.S. sled hockey team that won the gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Paralympics four years ago.

Hungary's Katinka Hosszu ended her long wait for Olympic victory and Australia captured two gold medals in an exhilarating first day of swimming competition that saw three world records smashed in Rio on Saturday.

He also won three Tony Awards, including Lifetime Achievement, and received the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1980 and the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts in 1996.

Born in Minnesota and now a resident of Vail, Colorado, Vonn was on Team USA for the Olympics in 2002, 2006 and 2010 when she became the first American woman to win a downhill Olympic gold medal.

She deserved this gold medal.»

As the Washington Post puts it, «her hopes for an Olympic gold medal should have been dashed.»

«I got the gold medal in my head.

Mack Horton's victory in the men's 400 freestyle also meant Australia had already doubled their gold medal tally from a disappointing showing four years ago.

During her fifth Olympics in Pyeongchang, the 34 - year - old skater won her first gold medal.

She weaved in on twice gold medal winner Shannon Szabados, moved to her left with a backhand that drew the Canadian goaltender toward her and then pulled the puck to her forehand and slid it in behind her.

The win marks the first gold medal in pairs figure skating for Germany since 1952 and ties Savchenko for the most medals ever awarded to a pairs skater.

Over the course of her career, the 35 - year - old has earned tennis Grand Slam titles, Olympic gold medals and more than $ 84 million in prize money on top of a slew of endorsement deals and multimillion - dollar partnerships.

Edwards also points out that over 70 % of the athletes that won a gold medal in track and field events did so while wearing Nike gear, a helpful marketing buzz for a business that generates $ 5 billion in revenue for Nike at wholesale channels today.

Michael Phelps laughs after being presented with his 20th Olympic gold medal after winning the men's 200 - meter butterfly at Rio 2016 on Tuesday, August 9, 2016.

It goes without saying that the mind is a powerful tool and seeing yourself with the gold medal will motivate you to put in practice every day steps to make that a reality and not just a distant dream.

When Fortune asked Edwards how he'd rate the brand's performance during Rio, he demurred outright calling for a gold medal.

American wrestlers grappling in Rio this month are competing for much more than just gold medals thanks to some wealthy Wall Street donors.

We're hard - pressed to say which is best: Duke's Coach K (above, right), who has developed players for decades with a mixture of toughness and love — in the process becoming the winningest Division I men's college basketball coach in history and leading the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team to a pair of gold medals?

Sure, they both have two Olympic medals now (Vonn has one gold and one bronze; Shiffrin has two gold medals including one this week at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea).

They said, «Gold medals are awarded in the summer, but they are earned in the winter.»

Judging from the company's 4.9 out of 5 - star rating on the career - rating website Glassdoor and Elite's host of awards for its culture — including the Ad Age's Gold Medal for Best Agency Culture, Crain's Best Place to Work and the top spot on Mashable's «Best Tech Companies to Work For» list — Kirshner's approach is working.

Then he explains how the Netherlands» 2014 Olympic speed skating team used the shorts, and they won more gold medals than they ever had before.

But gold medals aren't made of gold, not entirely anyway.

Wind and choppy waters on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake caused anxious moments for rowers on the opening day of the Olympic rowing regatta on Saturday, with gold medal contender Kimberly Brennan just avoiding a major setback.

The United States took home the gold medal at the men's 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay in Rio on Sunday night, led by Michael Phelps's big second lap.

She and her twin sister, Lieke, a teammate on the Dutch squad for several years, are known as for the particular attribute that earned Sanne a silver medal at worlds last year and a gold medal in Rio.

But sports without vibrant business models and followings will prevent a gold medal from earning much beyond fame in a small niche community.

Australian Brennan, favorite for the gold medal in the women's single sculls, almost became an early casualty.

And if Simone Biles wins the individual all - around as expected, it will be another feather for Karolyi: the first time a country has claimed that gold medal in four consecutive Olympics.

Kim was too young to compete at Sochi 2014, so during the wait for the 2018 Olympics, she racked up three X Games gold medals, became the first woman to land back - to - back 1080s, scored a perfect 100 at the X Games, and won golds at the Youth Olympics — all before she turned 17.

Browsing through RR Auction's archives, there's a January 2016 sale that included four gold medals, with prices from $ 47,746.83 for a gold from Chamonix 1924 to $ 10,114.83 for a Melbourne 1956 gold.

Jesse Owens once said, «I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.»

Wired calculated that a typical gold medal would weigh 3.35 pounds and be worth around $ 76,000 in terms of the pure value of the gold.