Sentences with phrase «won by a meter»

He caught Bitok 12 meters from the end and won by a meter and a half.

Not exact matches

He added another historic achievement to his legacy on Thursday night by crushing a strong field in the 200 - meter individual medley to win his fourth gold medal of the Games.

In the 2012 Olympics in London, Le Clos beat Phelps by five one - hundredths of a second to win the 200 - meter butterfly.

Kisha, a senior, led Hammond High to the Maryland 2A / 1A girls» track and field championship by winning the 55 - meter dash (7.17 seconds), the 55 hurdles (8.52) and the 300 run (40.99).

In an event Daley said «had overtones of comedy slapstick,» another black American runner — John Woodruff, who died last week at 92 — won the 800 meters by stopping dead in mid-race.

Bonnie Blair becomes the first U.S. athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics in Albertville by striking gold it the women's 500 - meter speed skating.

Over the final 30 meters, Bolt displayed his otherworldly speed, pulling away from what was quite possibly the fastest group of humans ever assembled (as for the first time ever, an Olympic final featured the four fastest men of all time) to win by a comfortable margin.

Norway's Magne Thomassen, who won the 1,500 - meter race, finished second in the overall, followed by Ard Schenk of Norway.

Crawford, who once raced a giraffe and a zebra on television (beat the giraffe, lost to the zebra), had won the 200 - meter gold on a surreal Thursday night, when the start of his race was delayed four minutes by Greek fans chanting the name of Konstantinos Kenteris, the 2000 Olympic champion and national hero who withdrew from the Games after missing a drug test, and Hel - las!

Meseret Defar of Ethiopa won the gold medal in the women's 5,000 - meter race Friday night in the 2012 London Olympics in a race unsurprisingly dominated by East African nations.

Mariya Savinova defended her World Championship by winning gold at the London 2012 Olympics in the 800 meters, while Castor Semenya finished second.

His Eminence won by two lengths in 2:07 3/4, eased up, which brought the owner, F. B. Van Meter, a $ 4,850 purse andWinkfield a bonus of $ 500.

Torrence caught Privalova with only 20 meters to go and won by about half a meter, giving the U.S. a time of 42.11 to the Unified Team's 42.16.

Verschoth reflected on the moments of elation she had experienced at the Games — watching Wyomia Tyus win her second gold medal in the 100 in Mexico City, viewing the towering 400 - and 800 - meter double by Cuba's Alberto Juantorena at Montreal in 76.

He won the three - meter title by more than 50 points.

Bolding was entered in the 400 - meter hurdles, which he won in 48.3, but by agreement was also timed for the longer distance.

Hamler, who also won the 40 - meter jump at the Junior Olympics in Ely, Minn., took the junior title by jumping 244 and 259 feet for a point total of 167.6, 12.1 points better than Rob Trudue of Canada.

TRACK & FIELD Dave Stephens, promising Aussie, surprised touring Hungarian record breakers Laszlo Tabori and Sandor Iharos, took 5,000 - meter run in good 14:07.2 at Melbourne three days after slender Iharos outran Tabori by inches to win 2 - mile race in 8:47.4 for new Australian record.

Miranda was unable to compete in the Central Coast Section Cross Country championships a season ago, but he made up for it during the spring by winning the 3200 meters at the CCS Track and Field Championships.

Indeed, the day after Arazi's five - length triumph at Saint - Cloud — had Cauthen not wrapped up on him through the final 100 meters, the colt would have won by twice that margin — some of the leading figures in French racing were viewing the performance with something close to wonder.

Schaap skillfully separates fact from legend — the sprinter wasn't snubbed by the Nazi leader after winning the 100 - meters, for example — without diminishing Owens's hero status.

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Larson swam so powerfully when he wasn't strapped into anything in Friday's 200 free that he not only won the event but did it by surging in the final 20 meters.

Cohen, barely 15 yet swimming in her fourth nationals, placed in the top eight behind Linzmeier in the 800 and 200, then shocked everyone when she won Saturday's 400 free by overtaking Marybeth in the final 50 meters.

Jesse Vassallo, world - record holder in the 400 - meter individual medley, abruptly ended two years of frustration, in which he was unable to improve his times, by winning two events and coming within.38 of his IM record.

by Walter Chaw With Aaron Sorkin dialled to «11» on the Sorkin meter and Danny Boyle doing his best impersonation of Oliver Stone circa 1994, hotly - anticipated Steve Jobs biopic Steve Jobs features an Oscar - winning (in a year without a slavery or Holocaust picture, just mail it to him) performance by Michael Fassbender in the title role of a dysfunctional Sorkin genius figure, surrounded by the Sorkin retinue of brilliant but subordinated women and various omega males.

Apart from the usual JRPG turn based elements, which probably even my grandma knows by now, the title adds a support mechanic which builds up over turns and can be unleashed when a meter is full up, potentially helping turning a fight from a loss to a win.

There's a dubious sounding Clash system which basically allows players to break an opponent's combo by initiating Clash and then players must commit an amount of their meter to bidding and the highest bidder wins the clash.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Well don't panic too much as randomly through the game you get the chance to «win» a power - up or a weapon by way of a meter, the closer you get the meter to the top the better the weapon, but of course if it reaches the top, then you win nothing.

However, EDD Blog notes that «Among corporate lawyers, there have been rumblings about lack of quality control at E.E.D.» In any event, win or lose, by challenging what it perceives as a bloated bill, Sullivan & Cromwell is showing its corporate clients that it's willing to go to the mat for them — even when the meter isn't running.

Absolute World Towers, which form part of a five - building complex and were designed by the architectural practices MAD and Burka Architects, won over the jury primarily through their unmistakable design: «The way the two structures twist organically by up to eight degrees per floor is not just a superb technical achievement, but also a refreshing change to the set forms of high - rise routine,» says the panel of experts in explaining the choice of the pair of towers, 176 and 158 meters tall, as the winner.