Sentences with phrase «of decathlon»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

«Building a company is a decathlon — it's a test of skills, capabilities, endurance and sprints.

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.

Two - time Olympic decathlon champion Daley Thompson of Great Britain, unable to shake off the effects of a groin injury, finished ninth behind the 8,680 points of East Germany's Torsten Voss.

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.

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.

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

The men's event wasn't a Diamond League race but the majority of attention was on decathlon world record - holder Ashton Eaton who continues this year's focus on the one lap event over the barriers.

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

The son of Croatia's decathlon record holder Josko Vlasic, Nikola is from rich sporting stock.

See one mom's review of the Britax Decathlon convertible car seat after using it...

«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).

That's because the arrays will also allow Butte students to get real world training for the green jobs of tomorrow, much like the semiannual Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered houses.

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

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.

Former NCAA Champion, a two - time World Outdoor Champion, a member of the United States 2008 Olympic team, and the silver medal decathlon winner of London 2012 Trey Hardee joins the Onnit Podcast.

For walking during the summer months I often wear a pair of Mary Jane style walking shoes that I bought at Decathlon.

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).

Lastly, the Decathlon will have you playing the best out of five or ten minigames.

These include Championship Battles that is basically a tournament mode, Decathlon which is similar but you get a certain amount of points after each game, and Minigame Match which has you play on a board like the ones in the recently released Mario Party Star Rush.

It is worth repeating that, in spite of this, the film does not take itself too seriously, and the decathlon competitions and all else are the source of some amusement.

Sam, of course, has his O.C. - style melodrama to contend with, since his rich kid adversary from the recent academic decathlon is flirting with his dream girl Laura (Emmy Rossum), while Sam's mom (Sela Ward) sits bedside with a young cancer patient in a cloying side - story (further ruined by Harald Kloser's prosaic score) meant to warm our frostbitten hearts.

Visions of Eight includes contributions by Olympic film veterans Claude Lelouch and Kon Ichikawa, as well as newcomers like Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde), John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy), and Miloš Forman (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), whose witty decathlon segment is a notable highlight.

Students from John Marshall High School in Los Angeles — where 80 percent of those enrolled learn English as a second language — won the sixth annual U.S. Academic Decathlon last week in Dallas.

Most of them looked at me dubiously as I pulled out the silver box of practice impromptu speech topics from Academic Decathlon, but they sat with their pencils at the ready.

As someone who has coached our school's Academic Decathlon team for over 10 years, I've long understood the value of public speaking for students.

Granada Hills Charter High School is a California Distinguished School and home of the 2011 Academic Decathlon National Champions.

Additionally, of the top 112 U.S. top charter high schools on the list, 43 were from California, and 18 in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) alone, including recent National Academic Decathlon winner Granada Hills Charter High and National Green Ribbon Award recipient Environmental Charter High.»

The first and second place winners of the National Academic Decathlon were California charter Schools.

This award marks the end of the 2015 - 16 academic decathlon season in which Granada Hills Charter won all levels of competition including the city, state and national titles.

Home of the National Academic Decathlon champions for 8 of the last 10 years, LAUSD is no stranger to success in the annual academic competition for high school students.

Losing out was Granada Hills Charter High School, a high performer that just won the state's Academic Decathlon and has a waiting list of about 2,000 students.

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.

I also bought the entry - level ski bag (# 8) to protect and carry the skis, as well as a basic pair of light - weight poles (# 10) with adjustable wrist strap, both from Decathlon.

You will find many of the familiar names such as Debenhams, Marks and Spencer, Decathlon and Montblanc.

It has hosted international decathlons, where athletes run through the strenuous and rugged terrain of Punta Verde to Cape Engaño, then plunged in the crystal clear water of the Philippine Sea.

for free and has other activision classics like Decathlon, River Raid and (of course) Pitfall.

Eco-architect Michelle Kaufmann is one of this year's judges for the Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event taking place at the National Mall's West Potomac Park.

Michelle Kaufmann judged this year's Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event which took place at the National Mall's West Potomac Park.

TRTL, Canada's entry for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011, is a unique response to the culture of Treaty 7 Native Peoples in Southern Alberta.

Michelle Kaufmann is judging this year's Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took of the Team Tennessee house at the National Mall's West Potomac Park.Tennessee seeks to apply global technologies to local

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Michelle Kaufmann judged this year's Solar Decathlon and here are some of the photos she took at the event which took place at the National Mall's West Potomac Park.Team Belgium aimed for simplicity with E-Cube, its entry for

It was designed by students at the New School and Stevens Institute of Technology as part of a Solar Decathlon design competition, which partnered with the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development.