Sentences with phrase «of a broken world record»

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In the world of golf, Nicklaus added that despite intense competition, he expects Tiger Woods to break his record of 18 career major championships.

The day's record spree began with Britain's Adam Peaty, who broke his own world mark of 57.92 in the heats of the 100 breaststroke when he clocked 57.55.

In November, Nike employees from around the world traveled to Las Vegas to break the record for the largest gathering of Elvis impersonators (645).

The auction house broke a world record this spring with the sale of an 18 - karat gold, diamond - encrusted Himalaya Birkin for nearly $ 380,000.

The 19 - year - old U.S. swimmer, who earned five gold medals and broke world records, won't be partaking in any sponsorship deals since she's opted to enroll at Stanford University instead of going pro.

After 1995, Chanu is the first world champion from India who has broken all the records after two decades of wait.

This spring the auction house broke the world record for the most expensive diamond ever sold at auction with the $ 71.2 million sale of the «Pink Star» diamond.

As Virginia has emerged as a top global market for data centers, tax breaks to attract some of the world's richest companies to the state have exploded, new records show.

The animal was expected to break the world record for the size of a bunny.

The meteoric rise of bitcoin has accelerated yet again as the world's number one digital currency broke a new record raising $ 2299 a coin in a...

American multinational fund management corporation and the world's largest money manager Blackrock has announced that a record breaking amount of US$ 347 billion worth of exchange - traded funds (ETFs) have been traded in 2015.

The world for most part of it is in a rescission, Poverty is at a record high, the rich keep getting richer, people are dying from useless wars and gun violence, but the starw that broke the camels back (pardon the pun) is the name Mohammed.

And World Relief had a record number of churches volunteer to help refugees resettle in America last year, while a solidarity pledge by We Welcome Refugees surpassed its original goal of 10,000 signatures, and was poised to break 20,000 on Friday.

If a young woman in Scotland hadn't dreamed up the «pre-tribulation fly - away» in 1830; if a British clergyman hadn't hijacked her dream and sneakily planted it around the world in the 1800s; if a crooked, jailed - for - forgery lawyer with no theological background hadn't come out with a reference Bible in 1909 with the same fly - away escapism in marginal notes; and if modern - day rapture robber barons and tribulational tycoons hadn't found numerous ways (and gimmicks like four «blood moons») to widely mass - market the same delicious delusion for the masses while breaking sales records, no one could now be into the moonshine, looking up at the moon and saying «Moon, you mush be drunk becaush I shee four of you!»

Indeed, Shinh and the company gained much notoriety for developing and facilitating the record - breaking sale of the most expensive single bottle of Champagne in the world — a limited edition bottle that sold for a staggering $ 1.8 million in 2013.

For Halloween, we attempted to break the record for the world's loudest scream — the acknowledged «Scream of Ice Cream.»

It became World Famous when it broke all records in the Guinness Book of...

Concha y Toro Breaks through Billion - Dollar Mark in 2014 The world's fourth largest wine company in sales volume and second largest in terms of surface of vineyards, with a presence in 145 countries, Concha y Toro registered record sales of 33.2 - million cases in 2014...

Just a few weeks ago at the first annual Arizona Hot Sauce Expo, daredevil chile pepper eater Greg Foster of Irvine, CA break the Guinness World Record for consuming the largest amount of Carolina Reaper chile peppers in one minute.

This pizza topped with 111 different kinds of cheeses has broken the Guinness World Record for the pizza topped with the most varieties of cheese.

Also we had Mesut Ozil a couple of years ago saying that he was aiming to win the Balon D'Or one day, but at least he followed that up by breaking records all the following season, and now we have our other superstar, Alexis Sanchez, stating that he is up there with the best two players in the world.

Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentina's daring world champion, began bid for fourth title, gunning his borrowed Ferrari at record - breaking 79.4 mph to win Argentina Grand Prix at Buenos Aires, first championship race of 1956.

Ann Turbyne, 18, of Winslow, Maine, broke a women's world weight - lifting record in the 165 - pound class, hoisting 410 pounds from a dead lift at the Eastern America Championships.

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Overseas, indoor world records were broken in separate meets as WENDELL MOTTLEY of Trinidad lowered the 440 - yard mark by [3/10] of a second with a 47.3 in a Cosford, England meet, and MICHEL JAZY of France clipped 1.2 seconds off the 1,500 - meter record of 3:41.9 (set in Berlin by East Germany's Jurgen May a week earlier) at a meet in Lyon, France.

SWIMMING — KAREN MUIR, a 13 - year - old South African, regained her 110 - yard world backstroke mark — broken by [1/10] of a second (1:08.6) only five days earlier by Ann Fairlie, 16, another South African swimmer — when she recorded a 1:08.3 in a Durban (South Africa) meet.

He ran the second fastest 880 in history, beat California's Lon Spurrier (whose 1:47.5, run three weeks ago, is the fastest) and broke Mai Whitfield's outmoded but still official world record of 1:48.6 by a tenth of a second.

29 Andre Cason breaks the world indoor record in the 60 - meter dash, in Ghent, Belgium, with a time of 6.45 seconds.

In 1991 Powell not only broke the most astounding record ever — Bob Beamon's long jump standard of 29» 2 1/2», set in 1968 — but also produced his 29» 4 1/2» in the greatest mano a mano battle in field event history, defeating Carl Lewis, who also jumped his lifetime best, 29» 1 1/4», in the World Championships in Tokyo.

Lonnie Spurrier, sensational San Francisco Olympic Clubrunner who unexpectedly cracked half - mile world record March 26, raced 1,000 yards in 2:08.5, broke U.S. outdoor mark of 2:09.3 (set in 1939) in special race at Berkeley, Calif..

I knew nothing of him before that world cup, it's silly to offer record breaking numbers because of one tournament.

Taker beating Cena in a match and sending Cena down a road of self - doubt that inevitably leads to a record - breaking world title?

The good news for the Gunners from this report is that Mourinho is currently focused on completing the world record breaking move for Paul Pogba from Juventus, so Wenger does have a better chance of getting his man if he does it quickly.

Manchester United on the other spend the same amount of money on only one of their targets, breaking the World Record fee for a football player.

• Wes Santee, the verbose miler, wrote officials of New Orleans» Sugar Bowl that he proposes to break John Landy's 3:58 world record there on the afternoon of Dec. 31, 1954.

But since coming out of the break, Chicago has looked refocused and ready for a run at the World Series with an 18 - 6 record.

if it's true that arsenal made the record breaking bid for mbappe that means they can sign the like of Aubameyang and Griezman...... we pay highest in europe and may b in the world and still they cant pay Sanchez and Ozil...... sign radja naingolan of As roma, sign eric dier of totenham, sign aubameyand of dormund, sign zaha of crystal palace,

Since it seems to be the way of the world to treat the transfer market as its own competition — with winners and losers, pace - setters and stragglers — then these moves, the paradigm - shattering, record - breaking, impossible - made - possible ones, are the finishers.

I can only assume that all the talk this summer about the Arsenal transfer target Kylian Mbappe who is also being linked with the likes of Real Madrid and was thought to be about to break the world record for a transfer fee, has gone to the heads of the people in charge at his French Ligue 1 club AS Monaco.

Colombia broke the record for the oldest World Cup player of all time in their third match against Japan.

Certainly not how the defending Monster Energy Cup Series champion thought he'd begin his title defense and pursuit of a record - breaking eighth championship, heading into Sunday's Camping World 500 at Phoenix International Raceway (3:30 p.m. ET, Fox).

The Texas Rangers were going off at +1800 to win the World Series on Opening Day on the baseball betting lines at the sportsbooks, but the non-believers have been put on notice with the Rangers holding an AL - best 54 - 36 record coming out of the break.

Having broken the world record transfer fee the last four times with the signings of Zinedine Zidane, Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and most recently Gareth Bale, Real Madrid certainly spend plenty of money.

Both starlets were key figures as the Eaglets won the U-17 World Cup in Chile earlier this month, with Osimhen announcing himself as the competition's top scorer — breaking the all - time record for goals in the competition — and Nwakali winning the Player of the Tournament award.

«It is not every day you break the record of the best league in the world.

PSG made waves in the transfer market by breaking Neymar out of his Barcelona contract, breaking the world record fee by some margin.

TRACK & FIELD — Australian Olympian PAM KILBORN broke her own world record for the 200 - meter hurdles with a 26 - second clocking and was one - quarter of a 220 - yard relay team that set another world mark — 1:35 — at a meet in Brisbane.

The second longest was his own world record set last year, which, of course, he broke.

This year's Le Mans prototypes are nothing short of sensational, breaking record after record in the World Endurance Championship and this onboard video shows off just how fast they really are.

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.