Sentences with phrase «points race champion»
Elinor Barker stormed to the points race champion title in a race dominated by the home nations, with Katie Archibald and Neah Evans riding to silver and bronze respectively for Scotland - Wales's first gold medal on the track since 1990.
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We have all but ruled ourselves out of the title race following our dismal display at Stamford Bridge this weekend which allowed our rivals to move to 12 points clear of us, and we (for now) have to concentrate on building our own form to assure ourselves of Champions League football, and should the Blues begin to drop points, we must be within touching distance of them when push comes to shove.
This was the first race without a minimum pit stop time and thankfully things went pretty smoothly - well, unless your name is Lucas di Grassi, who suffered a car issue shortly after pitting and finishes the first third of the season with no points to his name - not great for the defending champion...
The championship leader at the end of the normal 26 - race section will be awarded «regular season champion» and get 15 additional playoff points, with the rest of the top 10 also getting them on a 10 (for second) to one (for 10th) playoff point basis.
The Premier League champions have been cut adrift in the race to defend their title in recent weeks, with leaders Chelsea now commanding a six point lead with a game in hand.
Defending race - winner and regular season points champion Martin Truex Jr. starts third, followed by Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski.
The 59 - year - old has earned plenty of praise this season, not only for the fact that Napoli continue to push defending Serie A champions Juventus in the title race, as they trail them by four points with seven games remaining, but more so because of the style of football that he has implemented at the San Paolo.
Victory for Louis van Gaal's side would lift them to within one point of the Citizens, who have only won one of their last five league games, in the race for the fourth and final Champions League place.
Spurs narrowly missed out on the Champions League places last year, finishing just one point behind north London rivals Arsenal in a race that went down to the final day of the season.
The result sees West Ham stay fifth, four points behind Spurs in the race for the top four Champions League places.
Arsenal's win over the weekend now coupled with Aston Villa's shocking defeat now have Arsene's men only three points behind in their race for the final Champions League slot.
Jan 04,2016... At one point the race left her breathless, but Betty Cook, ex-world and current national champion, b...
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Having added countless top young players to essentially start a new cycle at the club, Guardiola and his players have built an early eight - point lead in the Premier League title race while they've comfortably qualified for the knockout stage of the Champions League.
With the Manchester derby taking centre stage on Sunday afternoon, it was important that the North London outfit came away with all three points as the race for Champions League qualification heats up with the end of the season fast approaching.
There are various theories about why the Gunners keep falling short in the race for the Premier League title and our various and numerous injury problems certainly do not help, but it is the way that the team fails to turn up at times in crucial games, such as the EPL defeat by Wartford recently or the Champions League hammering at the hands of Bayern Munich that many will point to as evidence that the boss is not getting the best from his squad anymore.
The Italian tactician is under growing pressure at Chelsea this season after a hugely disappointing second half of the season that has seen them lose the Carabao Cup semi-final, fall five points behind Tottenham in the race for fourth, and facing a mountain to climb to get past Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League.
Martin went into Sunday's race only 73 points behind leader Jimmie Johnson, having taken a whopping 107 - point chunk out of Johnson's margin the week before at Texas, when the three - time defending champion crashed on the third lap and finished 38th.
Wenger can ill - afford another defeat on Sunday, as the Frenchman is already under fire following a poor run of form which has seen them fall eight points off the pace in the Premier League title race, as well as slipping to a two - goal deficit ahead of their second leg clash with Barcelona in the Champions League.
In his post match interview on the Arsenal website the Frenchman was also asked about whether the fact that the two big clubs not involved in the Champions League or Europa League are leading the race at this point means that their lack of midweek matches gives them an advantage.
United remain in fifth place in the Premier League table with seven games remaining this season, but they sit just one point adrift of rivals Manchester City in the race for Champions League qualification.
It stayed that way until the end, and thanks to the quirky points system of that season and bad races for Jacques Laffite and Alan Jones, Scheckter was crowned champion in front of the Tifosi.
Vettel won the race and found himself at the top of the standings for the first time all year at the point in the season in which it mattered the most, securing an emotional victory and becoming the youngest ever champion.
Following an excellent run of form, Zidane's side are firmly back in the title race, and find themselves just one point behind leaders Barcelona and Champions League final opponents Atletico Madrid with two games to play.
Those issues have led to a very underwhelming start to the campaign, with the Rossoneri sitting in seventh place in the Serie A table and 11 points adrift of the top four in the race to qualify for the Champions League.
The reigning champions picked up a valuable point in their last league match against local rivals Racing Club and will hope to improve their form with a positive result against the Ecuadorian side.
The Gunners currently sit fourth whilst Spurs are just two points behind their hated rivals — both will see this as an opportunity to get a leg up in the race for Champions League qualification.
Louis van Gaal's side are now within one point of their local rivals in the race for the final Champions League spot, and can put the Europa League exit to Liverpool behind them.
With three races left, Johnson, the five - time defending Sprint Cup champion, trails Carl Edwards by 43 points.
He struggled with the new one - lap qualifying system and whilst teammate Raikkonen was three points away from being champion, Coulthard only scored two more podiums and finished a lowly seventh in the title race.
Pep Guardiola boasts a strong squad already, guiding them to a 12 - point lead in the Premier League title race while they've made the League Cup final and are still chasing the FA Cup and Champions League.
After a difficult penultimate race day, the British duo faced an uphill battle to try and wrest gold from the grip of the Austrian defending champions Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar, who started the final 10 - boat medal race with a near insurmountable 18 point lead.
The cyclists particularly shone in Australia as Elinor Barker — already an Olympic gold medallist and three - time world champion — confirmed her status as one of the sport's elite by winning the women's point race in the velodrome before turning domestique on the road to help Dani Rowe claim a hard - fought bronze.
It was a depressing evening for Zinedine Zidane's side who, despite being in the Champions League last 16 where they face Paris Saint - Germain in three weeks» time, are 19 points behind Barcelona in the Spanish title race.
It was a deserved victory for the champions elect and means that they are now 18 points ahead of their title rivals Manchester City in the race to win the Premier League.
Atleti coach Diego Simeone has now ruled the champions out of this season's title race after they dropped two points at home to Valencia on Sunday
For the second time in three matches, Inter conceded a goal in the 90th minute to drop two more valuable points in the race for a Champions League place.
Sitting with a nine point lead at the top of the table, the Catalans are eyeing a second successive treble while Real have their sight firmly fixed on the Champions League trophy after dropping out of the title race.
Guardiola's men are now four points ahead of Manchester United in the race for the Champions League qualification spots.
The champions visited Stamford Bridge with a five point gap to make up, and they knew a defeat would effectively end their hopes of getting back into the race.
World class players don't stay around in teams like this, they don't stay for being knocked out in the Champions League in March or languishing fifteen points behind their closest rivals in the most one - sided title «race» in Premier League history.
The extra spice was provided by both Manchester clubs dropping points at the weekend, handing Liverpool back the initiative in the Champions League race after losing to Crystal Palace last weekend.
Derby would finish the season as champions in one of the closest title races that I can recall with four teams separated by a single point.
Elinor Barker competed in the points race, alongside reigning world champion Katarzyna Pawlowska of Poland and scratch race champion Kirsten Wild.
As for Real's prospects, he agrees with his coach, Italian Carlo Ancelotti, who said the other day that Real's prospects of success in the Champions League were higher than in the Spanish league title race where the Madrid club currently trail eternal rivals, Barcelona, by two points, saying:
Third - placed Liverpool can gain more ground in the race for a Champions League place, whilst Southampton are still precariously positioned just two points above the relegation zone despite a first league win since November last week at West Brom.
Spurs are in fourth place and have a five - point lead over Chelsea in the race for the last Champions League spot.
No matter that Juventus is in a great rush, visitors from Rome, also have high expectations from this derby, because only with a new point (this) remain in the race for third place, which leads to the Champions League.
In the Bundesliga's crowded race for the Champions League spots, Leipzig currently sits sixth, four points outside of the top four, but only six behind Schalke for second place.
It was another miserable afternoon for Antonio Conte as they fell ten points behind fourth - placed Tottenham in the race for the Champions League.