Sentences with phrase «world championship events»
Unaccustomed to the media crush that accompanies such world championship events, Tudor took every inconvenience personally.
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For Vonn, who has four World Cup championships and raced in more World Cup events than any other American in addition to her Olympic medals, monetary success came in the form of lucrative endorsements.
From the outset it was clear he was a strong and talented time trialist, and he targeted key events nationally as well as the world championships and Olympics.
Snowboarding is her strong suit, as she won gold in parallel giant slalom at world championships in 2016, and placed in the top 30 in three events at skiing worlds.
This year's Telstra Rally Australia was the sixth world championship rally event Mr Lloyd has competed in during the past year.
STAPLES Center's sixteen years have also been marked with performances and special events that brought international stature to the downtown Los Angeles venue including concerts by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (who played the arena's first - ever public event on October 17, 1999), Mana, Prince, U2, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, Usher, Jay - Z, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Roger Waters, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Sade and Justin Timberlake, as well as world championship boxing, family shows and special events.
Besides the U.S. Grand Prix, which takes place at Watkins Glen on Oct. 4, how many other Grand Prix events count toward the world driving championship?
«Still, that event lit a spark that started a fire that turned into a dream that we converted into an idea: to host a round of the Formula 1 world championship on our doorstep, in Woking.»
Now, says the USGA, the Open championship, the most important golf event in the world, will be played like any other tournament, 18 holes a day for four days, finishing on a nice televisable Sunday.
Though he won a world championship in 1998, seven of the nine FIS events he entered in 1999 and gold in Salt Lake City, Powers is still not considered chairman of the board by his peers.
SPEED SKATING — FRED ANTON MAIER of Norway won the 5,000 - and 10,000 - meter events at the world championships in G √ ∂ teborg, Sweden to gain the overall title with a world - record low of 176,340 points.
Marcus Fugate, FAIRPORT, N.Y. Tennis Marcus, 14, went undefeated in singles and doubles at the World Junior Tennis championship in the Czech Republic, leading the U.S. team to its first - ever championship in the event.
While Mary T. Meagher, who set two world records in the butterfly, and other ladies excelled at the U.S. long course championships, there was a serious drought in the male freestyle events
Al Wiggins, handsome Ohio State swimmer who makes specialty of cracking records, addedanother to list, covering 100 - yard butterfly in 0:54.4 to better own world markfor event in Ohio AAU championships at Columbus.
Ten days before that, at a formal coronation in Seville, he had won the world championship in the 1,500, an event he is prohibitively favored to win next September at the Olympics in Sydney.
In 1962 Clark won three world championship point races, including the U.S. Grand Prix, and led in every event in which his Climax - engined Lotus was functioning properly.
What's more, the same select major events that Grantland Rice and Ted Husing faithfully covered before the war remain preeminent: the Triple Crown horse races, the Indianapolis 500, heavyweight title fights, the Olympics, the U.S. Open and Masters golf tournament, the World Series, the bowl games, the Wimbledon and U.S. tennis championships.
Is it possible he's now going to hold the WWE Universal Championship until August's SummerSlam event, which would also allow WWE to have a new modern - day record for world championship reign length, i.e., bumping CM Punk from that particular mountain?
At the world junior championships in Beijing last August, Anthony finished eighth — the best showing ever by a female U.S. pole vaulter at the event.
Our major concern is that the working man and woman who follow baseball all year long should have a chance to watch the two premier events, the league championships and the World Series.
And the big events, the age group world championships, are usually played far away and are pretty much ignored by the media and the casual fan.
The national championships omnium is decided over four events, the Points Race, Scratch Race, Elimination Race and 200m Time Trial (the World Championship and Olympic format also includes individual Prusuit and 1000m Time Trial).
Despite adverse weather conditions, thousands of spectators attended the event and witnessed some top - class action, with one world record, three championship records and 26 national records broken.
«Beijing is a hugely important event to us, yet this is the first of three huge global competitions for us, with the Olympics in Rio next year and the home World championships in 2017,» said British Athletics performance director Neil Black.
World decathlon record - holder Ashton Eaton picked up from where he left off in the heptathlon, clocking 7.64 in the 60m hurdles for a championship best, bettering the 7.68 mark set by himself in Istanbul two years ago to go nine points ahead of his five - event tally when setting his world record in World decathlon record - holder Ashton Eaton picked up from where he left off in the heptathlon, clocking 7.64 in the 60m hurdles for a championship best, bettering the 7.68 mark set by himself in Istanbul two years ago to go nine points ahead of his five - event tally when setting his world record in world record in 2012.
In the first event of the evening on the track, Tinsley clocked 48.77 ahead of world championships seventh placer Mamadou Kassé Hanne with 48.86 and Bershawn with 49.92.
Last October it was announced that the Virgin Money London Marathon would host the world marathon event ahead of the championships taking place in Doha, Qatar, from October 22 - 31 as the spring date better suited the race schedules of the leading marathon racers.
«With both cities keen to make the best use of their venues we are delighted to have developed an event strategy which offers both Birmingham and Glasgow the chance to host the sell - out Sainsbury's Indoor GP and pursue our ambitions to bring the world's best international championships to the UK.»
The chief executive officer of the World Racing Group - the company that oversees the Super DIRT Week racing championships at the New York State Fair - said he had a «cordial» conversation today with fair officials about whether the event can or will continue at the fair.
«Since its inception, ORDA has successfully hosted more than 300 major national and international events — including numerous world championships and world cups,» Blazer told the Sun.
On longer time trials and events like world championships, the effect can even add up to tens of seconds.
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Cuban southpaw Erislandy Lara (19 -2-2, 12 KOs) battles Ishe «Sugar Shay» Smith (26 - 6, 12 KOs) for the super welterweight world championship in the main event of a Showtime boxing special edition.
Showtime Boxing: Highlights from Leo Santa Cruz and Carl Frampton's possible Fight of the Year candidate as Frampton became the new WBA Featherweight World Champion in the main event of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING.
Showtime Boxing: A look into the upcoming 2017 lineup from SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING featuring world - class boxing events between Garcia vs. Thurman; Frampton vs. Santa Cruz II, Jack vs. DeGale, Mikey Garcia, Adrien Broner, and many more.
Today in Anaheim, California is the third annual PlayStation Experience, an event for all things PlayStation, including panel discussions, news about upcoming games, and even a Street Fighter V world championship tournament.
The Florida event usually plays host to manicured classics, however the historic Lancia marque will hog the limelight with championship - winning cars from the comparatively exotic world of rally.
On May 28, 2015 WC Vision announced an extended sprint format series in addition to its existing Sprint format racing series in 2016, which was a standalone championship supporting the Pirelli World Challenge at all headliner events.
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Making his series debut, George Kurtz will enter the event following an incredible 2017 championship in the Pirelli World Challenge GTS category.
The car ran in 80 grand prix events between 1973 and 1978, winning 16 races and three world championships.
With the first event weekend in the Pirelli World Challenge Sprint - X now behind them, David Ostella and Dion von Moltke currently sit second in the championship title chase.
In 2016 he fulfilled a lifelong ambition and started in - field presenting at major athletics events including the Olympic trials and the London Anniversary Games, culminating in the London World Athletics championships 2017 — where he got to run the 100m in front of 60,000 fans just before Usain Bolt (though in a slightly slower time).
This is an international game fish tournament that is considered a qualifying event with regard to offshore world championships.
Central America consolidates its position as a favourite location to host world surfing championships, with two major events to take place in El Salvador and Panama.
Luxury resorts, awards and high profile sporting events solidify Riviera Nayarit's reputation as a Luxurious Mexican Destination Riviera Nayarit, Mexico — Launched in 2007, Riviera Nayarit already has some of the most luxurious resorts in the world, championship golf by top designers, world class spas, the largest yacht marina in Mexico and year - round deep sea -LSB-...]
The iconic 25 acre resort has recently enjoyed a $ 20m refurbishment and reinvigoration program making our event and meeting facilities world class and breathing new life into our Steve Smyers - designed championship golf course, ranked among the top resort courses in Australia.
The 6 - star ASP event La Santa Pro, leg of the world surfing championships, is held every year in October at the beautiful beach of San Juan, a few hundred meters away from the village.
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