Sentences with phrase «world first race»

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He was just the 126th sailor to complete an around the world race alone, and the first Canadian to twice complete.

I was caught in a hurricane rounding Cape Horn during my first round - the - world race.

It began as an idea to change the world by changing the way leaders addressed race within their firms and communities, first championed by PwC U.S. Chairman Tim Ryan in 2016, and reported exclusively by Fortune.

Architects around the globe are racing to build the world's first 3 - D printed houses — a breakthrough with profound implications for housing affordability and customization.

With its recent purchase of Whole Foods, Amazon is inching closer in the race to become the world's first company worth $ 1 trillion.

Nationally and globally, it's going to be exciting to watch manufactured housing explode, as seems likely to happen, and see if Warren Buffett or his heir beat Amazon's Jeff Bezos, the frontrunner, in the race to be the world's first trillionaire.

The company is also involved in the FIA Formula Championship, the world's first single - seater, all - electric racing series.

First, as the people of South Africa were divided by the race - based ideology of apartheid, so the people of Ukraine are divided by the ethnicity - based ideology of the «Russian world.»

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

We see this in sports, where Roger Bannister's comment about his world - record race (he was the first to run the mile in under four minutes) has often been repeated by other runners: «The world seemed to stand still, or did not exist... «17 And certainly this can be true of the play world of art, which, according to Gerardus Van der Leeuw, is a new «creation, a second world, with its own power.

If the United States were to be the first to release this new means of indiscriminate destruction upon mankind, she would sacrifice public support throughout the world, precipitate the race for armaments, and prejudice the possibility of reaching an international agreement on the future control of such weapons.

The world did at least progress to the point where the first - born of our race appeared.

Eugene Laverty's first World Superbikes race at the Imola circuit ended in spectacular and very fiery fashion after a heavy shunt.

Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentina's daring world champion, began bid for fourth title, gunning his borrowed Ferrari at record - breaking 79.4 mph to win Argentina Grand Prix at Buenos Aires, first championship race of 1956.

SKIING — It was a case of peaking too late: American BARBARA COCHRAN won it all at the World Cup races in Heavenly Valley, Calif. — first the slalom, then the giant slalom — to shut out the tough touring European stars.

With her downhill victory last Saturday at Lake Louise, Canada, 21 - year - old Lindsey Kildow (right) became the first U.S. woman to win World Cup races in back - to - back years since Picabo Street a decade ago.

Strung out along the steep headwall near the top of KT - 22, spectators and competitors watch a racer dart through a gate on the first pitch of the men's giant slalom course, considered one of the world's finest racing trails

After teammate Lionel Messi has netted a first - half opener, former Liverpool star Suarez raced onto a Sergio Busquets though pass to put Barca 2 - 0 up on River Plate after 49 minutes of today's FIFA Club World Cup final in Japan.

Now known around the world for his F1 commentary, Brundle enjoyed a lengthy career in F1 and success in endurance racing — including first place at Le Mans and a World Sportscar tworld for his F1 commentary, Brundle enjoyed a lengthy career in F1 and success in endurance racing — including first place at Le Mans and a World Sportscar tWorld Sportscar title.

The Silverstone circuit looked very different when it first hosted a F1 season opener, more specifically the maiden race in the F1 world championship.

He helped to kick start the rear - engined racing revolution in motorsport, winning two titles with the Cooper team to become Australia's first Formula 1 World Champion.

Last year Abdi Bile and Said Aouita, who were ranked first and second, respectively, in the world in the 1,500, did not race each other even once.

In 1971 the «regular» Porsche 917 enjoyed success in its last year in the World Sportscar Championship (a rule change made them unable to race in 1972), but in their first Can - Am season the 917/10 couldn't compete with the mighty McLarens.

In 2013 he became the youngest ever winner of the World Karting Championship and he won the British MSA F4 series in 2015, his first year of racing single - seaters.

Cheap, not spectacular, within the first 100 in the world in his position, unwanted by club, won't make pulse racing, won't see massive shirt sales, but... just okay.

The teenager will be the first Canadian to race in F1 since 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve retired in 2006.

And thanks to his presence at Augusta from Monday through Sunday — which included four complete rounds of golf for the first time since his unofficial Hero World Challenge in December — ESPN and CBS were also winners in the TV ratings race.

MOTOR SPORTS — Defending world champion JACKIE STEWART, driving a Tyrrell - Ford, led all the way to take the Argentine Grand Prix in Buenos Aires, the first Formula I race of the season.

She had won eight World Cup slalom races in 14 months, more than any other racer, and she skied with graceful professionalism on her first run to take a.49 of a second lead over defending gold medalist Hoefl - Riesch.

As he races to lay claim to the first around - the - world run, Britain's Robert Garside is losing ground to a growing pack of skeptics

It was a dramatic race too, as Jack Brabham ended up pushing his car across the line to win his first world championship.

The «new» crew were tested in six - lane international racing for the first time at the World Cup in Lucerne at the weekend.

The 2017 World Endurance Championship continued with the 6 Hours of Spa and the race ended up being even closer than it was at Silverstone, with less than two seconds separating first and second at the end of the race.

Now we've had our first look at the very orange livery two - time F1 champion Alonso will run at the world - famous IndyCar race, following on from McLaren's move to the bold colour in F1 this year.

1 Women who have won a World Cup skiing race in each of the six disciplines (giant slalom, downhill, slalom, Super G, combined and super-combi): Janica Kostelic of Croatia, who won her first Super G on Sunday.

Alfa Romeo has a long history in F1, with Giuseppe Farina and Juan Manuel Fangio winning the first two world championships driving Alfas before the company withdrew from grand prix racing at the end of 1951.

In 68 seasons of the Formula 1 World Championship, the driver who wins the first race has gone on to win the title 35 times.

@AnnieLast1 becomes the first in 2⃣ 0⃣ years to win elite women's race at the UCI MTB Cross-country World Cup!!

BT60B - 04 is the last Brabham car to race in the Formula 1 series and was world champion Damon Hill's first F1 drive.

Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee is set to race in Cape Town on Sunday, marking his return from an ankle injury and his first ITU World Triathlon Series race of the year.

Gorman claimed bronze in similar wet and cold conditions in the Junior Women's World Championship race in Auckland last year and in Hyde Park, went two better, leading out of the water and then at the front of the bike before pulling away with the fastest run of the day to claim her first world tWorld Championship race in Auckland last year and in Hyde Park, went two better, leading out of the water and then at the front of the bike before pulling away with the fastest run of the day to claim her first world tworld title.

Hurdler is to race in Scotland for the first time since the Commonwealth Games as she warms up for the World Indoor Championships

The United States» Katie Zaferes won the sprint race - her first career World Series win - ahead of Rachel Klamer and Gwen Jorgensen.

Saturday will be her first race at any distance since the August 25 1500m final in Beijing where she finished fifth and headed the last two World Championships gold medallists in a high - class race.

I wasn't expecting him to set the world alight in his first season, let alone the first few races, but half of me hoped he would at least be crushingly -LSB-...]

He did and now, following a season - opening performance of 6.63 in France at the end of last month — his first race since June — the 2014 world indoor champion has every intention of being in contention to find out what it feels like to win at a major championships in front of a home crowd in Birmingham in a few weeks» time.

Bekele's outing in Manchester will be his first ever race against Kenya's Kipsang, who clocked 2:03:23 for the marathon world record in Berlin last September.

Also among the British athletes in action in Lausanne was Sharp who went sub - 2:00 for the first time over 800m with 1:59.67 for fifth in a race won by Kenya's world champion Eunice Sum in 1:58.48.

I wasn't expecting him to set the world alight in his first season, let alone the first few races, but half of me hoped he would at least be crushingly better than Marcus Ericsson; which certainly isn't the case so far.

In the first Diamond League track race of the evening world and Olympic silver medallist Michael Tinsley beat Cornel Fredericks and Javier Culson to 400m hurdles victory, 48.25 his winning time.