Sentences with phrase «track and field athletes»

Through the decades, many distinguished black track and field athletes have followed in his footsteps.

Meet Canada's finest female track and field athletes as they make history in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Summer Games.

He'll be featured alongside Stephan James, Jeremy Irons, Jason Sudeikis, Amanda Crew and Carice van Houten in the movie about «Jesse Owens «quest to become one of the greatest track and field athletes, defying the odds of being a black athlete competing at the advent of Adolf Hitler «s reign as Germany's leader trying to create a perfect Aryan race for the country.»

The top high school track and field athletes in the area took part in the CIF Finals on Saturday at El Camino College.

Way back in the 1940s, two brothers from Germany started making shoes for track and field athletes.

Regarding the hamstrings, Hoshikawa et al. (2011) compared groups of young male track and field athletes and non-athletes.

At a recent seminar, I met Matt Ellis from PrimalATC.com, who works with Track and Field Athletes.

Furthermore, it has been shown that a reduction in anaerobic training volume from 35 % to 20 % (while keeping total training volume intact) actually increased race performance in track and field athletes.

However, when track and field athletes are tested according to the most standard procedures (back squat and / or bench press 1RM respectively for lower and upper body strength) the correlation between absolute strength and performance in competition has shown to be relatively weak.

Track and field athletes, and those in sports requiring similar bursts of speed, such as soccer or rugby, and in particular those requiring increased strength such as in football, have an added risk of injury.

However, many of these investigations used small sample sizes and they also often noted that other strength and power athletes such as powerlifters or track and field athletes were prone to the same conditions, albeit perhaps not always to the same extent (Aggrawal et al. 1979; Fitzgerald & McLatchie, 1980; Rossi & Dragoni, 1990).

This program was initially developed as supplemental work for track and field athletes to keep them healthy between intensive running sessions.

Gilles Cometti, Tudor Bompa, and Dr. Carmelo Bosco in the early 80s first described what is known today as post-activation potentiation or PEP (heavy eccentric and / or explosive exercises immediately followed by a combination of jumps, sprints or throws) and its application in the training of track and field athletes.

For track and field athletes like me, the Olympic Games are the pinnacle of our careers in this sport.

Some 30 percent — including all weightlifters and all but one track and field athletes — were banned from the competition.

When analyzed by gender and sport, some differences were even more pronounced: Female track and field athletes had the highest prevalence of clinically relevant depressive symptoms — 38 percent, or more than one out of three — making them two times more likely than others in the cohort to have symptoms.

At the time of writing, the International Olympic Committee looks likely to continue to require all women athletes to «verify» their gender by their genes, though the IOC may decide to grant exemptions to track and field athletes, in deference to the IAAF's objections.

The NCS Meet of Champions would serve as just a prelude to the CIF State Championships where she won gold medals in the triple jump and 100 hurdles, and continued her ascent as one of the best track and field athletes in the US.

Track and field athletes can experience the highest of high and lowest of lows, with the difference determined by inches or hundredths of a second.

Athletically, he is successful in a lot of different events, more so than a lot of other track and field athletes in the state» Davis coach Spencer Elliott said.

«Faster - Higher - Stronger» reads the urgent Olympic standard, and in Rome last week the best track and field athletes in the world responded superbly to the challenge.

On Tuesday morning 12 U.S. track and field athletes flew home.

Meanwhile, at the Stadio Olimpico, a suspiciously large number of track and field athletes either were scratched from their events or withdrew with sudden «injuries,» presumably to avoid the risk of being tested.

As evening fell at Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, track and field athletes and a delirious crowd gave sport its most memorable moments of 1992

But behind that tremendous performance, a question looms: Are female track and field athletes like Reese being paid what they deserve?

Because track and field athletes aren't paid by a team or part of a draft, they rely heavily on shoe and apparel sponsorships to make a living.

This quote says it all perfectly, Jackie Joyner - Kersee, a track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist explains:

-- Jackie Joyner - Kersee, American track and field athlete and three - time gold medalist

If he manages to win gold in all three races, his nine career gold medals would tie Paavo Nurmi and Lewis for the most by a track and field athlete.

Seventeen - year - old Tracy Austin isn't just your normal student - body president, straight - A student, accomplished pianist, soccer player, track and field athlete and placekicker on the varsity football team.

Bellerin will retire and become either a track and field athlete or a ballerina.

Take away the skills you will need to become the best track and field athlete and / or coach that you can be.

But he has no chance in a race against Gbamin, who was a track and field athlete (long jump) in his youth, and is soon caught.

Lucy was a varsity track and field athlete in Canada for seven years, which was the driving force that led her to her fitness addiction and her profession.

I found, after being a professional track and field athlete for 13 years, that the best way to cope with the emptiness that typically follows a career high is to always remember that your best and most important achievements are AHEAD of you.

Tianna Bartoletta is a professional track and field athlete.

It is interesting to note the recent case study of a world - record holding track and field athlete, who displayed type I, IIA and type IIX proportions of 29 %, 34 % and 24 %, respectively (Trappe et al. 2015).

Any developing or professional track and field athlete will appreciate the vital importance of body composition and nutrition.

I forgot to say that I am a track and field athlete that is looking to become a college decathlete in the future.

Frederick Carlton Carl Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal Visit for Winter Olympics live streams, highlights, schedules, results, news, athlete bios and more from PyeongChang 2018.

Frederick Carlton Carl Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal

Who: Stephan James, Shanice Banton, Jason Sudeikis, Amanda Crew and Jeremy Irons What: Jesse Owens» quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics.

The trailer provides a look into the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.

SYNOPSIS: Jesse Owens» quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off -LSB-...]

-- Peter Shmock, two - time Olympian and All - American NCAA track and field athlete, creator of the Life Athlete brand

Others on the short list were poet E. Pauline Johnson; Elsie MacGill, who received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Toronto in 1927; Quebec suffragette Idola Saint - Jean; and 1928 Olympic medallist Fanny Rosenfeld, a track and field athlete.

On its website, the bank says an independent committee has narrowed down the finalists to poet E. Pauline Johnson; black rights activist Viola Desmond from Nova Scotia; Elsie MacGill, who received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Toronto in 1927; Quebec suffragette Idola Saint - Jean; and 1928 Olympic medallist Fanny Rosenfeld, a track and field athlete.

Former competitive track and field athlete, training with the some of the most elite high performance coaches in Australia and being a member of the top hurdling training group at the time with Olympian, Paralympian and Commonwealth Games Representatives and coached by the Elite High Performance Australian Coach

A Bullet Bill appears in Mario Party Advance as a track and field athlete at the Mushroom Stadium.

At just nineteen years old, Tracie Léost is a young Indigenous leader, activist, and track and field athlete.