Sentences with phrase «track athletes competing»

Specialist sprint / power athletes consisted of 37 track athletes competing in events of ≤ 800 m, 7 swimmers competing in events ≤ 200 m, 2 judo athletes, 7 short - distance track cyclists, and 3 speed skaters.

Not exact matches

With 2,000 athletes competing in 47 events, Athletics — track and field — is the largest single sport at the 2012 Olympic Games.

There's no doubt that the three - sport athlete, especially one who competes in the big three of football, basketball and baseball (or track and field), has been a dying breed for many years.

As I transitioned to coaching track athletes after my competing days (before I started my surgical training), I felt there had to be a better explanation than a muscle «strain» for the varying degrees of hip pain my athletes were experiencing.

The Unified races will be one of the many highpoints of Bay Area Games as more than 500 Special Olympics Northern California special education student - athletes compete in track & field events on Tuesday at Acalanes High School in Lafayette.

Storey has also competed against able - bodied athletes riding for England at the Commonwealth Games and won medals at UCI Track Cycling World Cup meetings with the able - bodied squad.

The six athletes will compete across four events in Brazil, looking to continue Team GB's strong track - record of shooting success having won 44 medals — 13 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze — in Olympic Games history.

Nick Kirkpatrick, a sixth - grader at Columbia (Ill.) Middle School, had just finished competing in his heat at a 2007 Oklahoma track meet for athletes with physical disabilities.

Following a season of grueling practices and hard - fought games, football and ice hockey players who had no outward sign of head trauma showed worrisome changes in brain structure and cognitive performance that weren't shared by athletes who competed in varsity sports such as track, crew and cross-country skiing, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

One final point to mention - many routines for sprint cyclists need to be adjusted for the strength athlete - high level strength athletes have force outputs that are sufficiently high to compete with higher level track cyclists - what they lack is the power production over time.

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.»

He was an American athlete who competed in track and field events.

While it may not be able to compete with rear - wheel drive athletes on the track, the TLX can handle all comers on the ordinary suburban streets like a champ.

She received her BS degree in Biology from James Madison University in 2004 where she also competed as a Division 1 scholarship athlete on the track and field and cross country team.

In 1993, Disney's Cool Runnings put Olympic bobsledding in the spotlight with its tale of an underdog team from Jamaica that defied the odds to compete on the same track as the world's greatest athletes, and now Eddie the Eagle seems poised to do the same for ski jumping.

In addition, to providing daily and weekly regimens to improve each individual athlete's individual performance in their chosen sport (s), we also provide opportunities for each of our athletes to test their athletic ability by competing in track events within and outside of Imperial Valley and the State of California as well.

About Blog Masters athletes, especially those older than 60, face training, competition, and nutrition challenges if they compete in track and field or in powerlifting.

As an adolescent, Kim trained in ballet, and was an athlete competing in gymnastics, track, swimming and diving.