Sentences with phrase «than a gold medal»

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

Most U.S. Olympians not named Michael Phelps, Serena Williams or Gabby Douglas who win a gold, silver, or bronze medal this year will receive little more than the U.S. Olympic Committee's respective $ 25,000, $ 15,000, or $ 10,000 for their troubles.

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.

Hundreds of gold medals are awarded during every Olympic games, and it's inevitable that some athletes — who, more often than not, won't get rich from their sport — wind up selling them.

GANGNEUNG, South Korea Ice dance legends announced their retirement, a five - time Olympian pairs skater finally gained gold, and two North Koreans won hearts if not medals in an Olympics packed with more drama than usual even for figure skating.

Allyson Felix enters competition in Rio with more medals than any other member of Team USA, and she's had her heart set on repeating in Rio the same gold medals she won in the last Olympics.

The spirits judging will commence on Friday, April 13 where more than 40 world - renowned judges will taste several thousand entries from around the world in over 100 categories, bestowing coveted SFWSC Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Double Gold medals on the best of them.

It has since won more than 100 medals from national and regional competitions including seven medals at the 20th Annual North American Beer Awards and two gold awards at the 2016 Great American Beer Festival.

Wines scored higher than 90 points were given a Gold medal, those over 85 points a Silver medal and those over 80 points a Bronze.

At last count he has won 30 trophies, including 51 gold, and more than 300 other medals.

A total of 1212 medals were awarded to entries in the 2017 edition of the KPMG Sydney Royal Wine Show though fewer gold medals (6.9 %) were awarded this year than in 2016 (7.6 %).

Over 657 Chilean wines were tasted during the week - long competition — more than any other year in its running — by a panel of highly esteemed judges, resulting in the record - high award of 93 gold medals.

Wybo, created in 1927, is currently sold in more than 80 countries worldwide, and touts more than 20 international awards in addition to winning a Gold Medal in the 2014 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

While it's no secret that some players, including reigning Players champ Rickie Fowler, have acknowledged they would opt for winning an actual major than bringing home the gold, Olympics advocates were no doubt disheartened to learn that only 38 percent of tour pros ranked medaling over The Players.

Abandoning that smoke screen upon reaching the gold medal game against none other than powerful Spain — and the rematch everyone had been awaiting for so long, or at least since six days earlier when the U.S. squeaked out a 101 - 68 thriller — Knight had the gall to say the Americans had come through «the toughest draw.»

No Chinese amassed a greater embarrassment of riches than woman gymnast Chiang Shao - yi, who won five medals, all of them gold.

Lydia Skoblikova is not quite 22, much younger than Grishin, and she was not even at Cortina four years ago; but at Squaw Valley she won two gold medals in speed skating, too, setting a world record in the 1,500 - meter race, winning the 3,000 and coming close to winning a third medal in the 1,000, where she finished fourth.

AFTER THE U.S. romped to a gold medal — and an Olympic berth — at the FIBA Americas tournament in Las Vegas, USA basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo was thinking about bigger things than bicontinental domination.

Venus and Serena Williams now have more gold medals than any tennis players in Olympic history after their third doubles gold.

(The West Germans are winning more than twice as many gold medals as their teammates and compatriots from the East.)

As soon as the technique became known, the Finns made it their own; and since they somehow seemed able to nose just a bit closer to their tips than others, the Norwegian monopoly of gold medals for Olympic jumping was broken for the first time at Cortina in 1956.

However, the numbers that count, as hockey continues the battle to establish itself as something more than NASCAR of the North, will be the ones that emerge over the next 20 years, when kids who watched the gold medal game start playing and become involved in the sport.

The first three rounds all began at 6:30 a.m. ET, but with inclement weather predicted for Saturday afternoon, the women will go off split tees (Nos. 1 and 10) starting at 6 a.m. Unless there's a playoff (or multiple extra frames, since the format calls for overtime to determine ties for gold, silver, and bronze medals), stormy weather earlier than the forecast calls for, or a return of the glacial tempo that marred Wednesday's opening round, the 59 - woman field should wrap it up by 1 p.m..

This is particularly interesting since they accept limits between $ 1,000 and $ 3000 on their Gold Medal odds which is significantly higher than other books.

Yet, ever since Winter Olympiad I in Chamonix, France, when one Charlie Jewtraw of Lake Placid, N.Y. won the first gold medal in any winter sport (in the 500), U.S. speed skating teams have produced more glittering prizes than any American entry — 32 medals in all, 11 of them gold.

Justin Rose has a gold medal, a major, and is better than ever.

One of Tully's biggest achievements this year was at the IPC World Swimming Championships in Glasgow in July, where she earned no less than four gold, one silver and one bronze medals at the event.

This year, when 17 - year - old Chloe Kim won the gold medal at Pyeongchang, more than 22.3 million people watched her do it.

The Broncos dominated the event with 192 points (59 better than second place) and Tittle led the way as part of gold medal swims in the 200 - yard Medley Relay and the 400 Freestyle Relay.

The poster - girl for London 2012, heptathlete Ennis - Hill had fulfilled her mantra in extraordinary fashion, with no fewer than three personal bests on her way to gold medal glory.

«For us, sporting success is about more than medals and trophies,» said Laura Trott, Britain's four - time Olympic gold medallist.

Musco Lighting LLC has been a proud sponsor of the Gold Medal Awards program for more than 10 years.

That the focus has been on street parties and gold medals, rather than public order and police visibility, is a testament to the unwavering, courageous, and measured manner in which the police have done their job.

This means that it wasn't just that the silver medal winners were less happy than gold medalists; instead, as Matsumoto and Willingham write, «those who displayed something displayed discrete, negative emotions.»

Eero Mantyranta, a Finnish cross-country skier who won two gold medals in the 1964 Olympics, was born with a mutation in the erythropoietin receptor gene that allows his blood to carry significantly more oxygen than the average person's [source: McCrory].

Gold Medal Bodies: If I could recommend only one place to learn calisthenics skills (other than SOA of course) it would be GMB.

Some of them were taking more lessons than I did, and reached Gold Medal level.

All this means you don't have much reason to replay levels other than to get gold medals.

Norway's team led in medals, with 19, and Germany won more gold — nine medals — in the first week than any other country.

Adam Rippon is probably getting the most out of Olympics than anyone else, even those who've won gold medals.

Conflict arises when Matt Brody (Efron, «Neighbors»), who won two Olympic gold medals then disgraced himself, needs work, but does not understand how and why the Baywatch job is much, much more than just a paycheck (frankly, neither do we).

February 25, 2018 • The country has 29 medals, including 11 gold, despite less - than - gold performances from their usual powerhouses.

This is passable as history, but the climax is so anti-climactic that «Woman in Gold» never merits more than a bronze medal.

In Vancouver last winter, the United States proved its competitive spirit by winning more medals — gold, silver, and bronze — at the Winter Olympic Games than any other country, although the German member of our research team insists on pointing out that Canada and Germany both won more gold medals than the United States.

And to understand why Ossining High was among this year's dozen silver - medal recipients (the closest regional facility to be awarded with a gold was South Side High School in Rockville Centre on Long Island), one only needs to cite their curriculum for students with learning disabilities, which allows more than 83 percent of such students to thrive in mainstream classes and extra-curricular activities.

$ 200 on money, bank notes, bullion, gold other than goldware, silver other than silverware, platinum other than platinumware, coins, medals, scrip, stored value cards, and smart cards.

Here's the thing — if Congress were to pass the new AMT exemption — it would essentially make Serena's gold medal prize money tax free, while at the same time helping millions of other Americans who could probably use the tax break a little more than Serena does.