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  • They're the sprinters, he says, whereas malamutes are sloggers, which were used in days of yore for hauling heavy freight.
  • Not only was Sheryl one of the fastest women beach sprinters ever to scorch the nation's sands, she was also a title-winning paddler on the Malibu board and surf ski.
  • His body was that of a mesomorph or modern sprinter. A request for information | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • Bigger athletes and sprinters generally start earlier than those who are less mature physically.
  • It was the sort of distance that Olympic sprinters can cover in less than a minute on their lap of honour.
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  • When sprinters are jostling for position races are won and lost in a split second. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
  • Sprinters need strong quadriceps for explosive power but this can create an imbalance, leading to more injuries Times, Sunday Times
  • The most famous case in history is that of Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson.
  • IT has been designed to depict the explosive burst of speed at the firing of a sprinter's starting pistol.
  • CBS They call sprinter Oscar Pistorius the "Blade Runner," for the j-shaped prostheses he wears. Breaking News: CBS News
  • The 20-year-old Christophe Lemaitre (whose surname translates as 'The Master') recently became the first white sprinter to break the 10-second barrier with 9.98 sec in Valence. BBC News - Home
  • A sprinter's season consists of perhaps 10 major races—less than 100 seconds of performance.
  • That's why marathon runners look scrawny but sprinters are built like tanks. The Sun
  • At the outset I assumed I would end up with two sprinters, two milers and two long-distance runners.
  • They found that the knees and ankles of the top 100m sprinters were the most symmetrical. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bahrain's Olympic sprinter Rogaya Al Ghasara is set to become the first athlete to compete in the "hijood", a combination of the words "hijab" or veil and "hood", on Tuesday in Beijing.
  • She was looking for a sprinter who could become a bobsleigh pusher, giving her team a competitive edge with explosive starts.
  • A new breed of British sprinters is waiting in the wings. The Sun
  • She was a great sprinter in her time winning silver and bronze medals at the 1960 Olympics and multiple golds at the 1963 Commonwealth and European Games in 1963, the year she won the award.
  • He was the top sprinter at the recent National Championships and copped the MVP award.
  • I think she'll be a good sprinter like her dad and grandad. Times, Sunday Times
  • Did the Olympic sprinter lose in the final because of the intense atmosphere or because he or she had an off day?
  • Smith flashes a smile and scuffs his foot across a swath of browned grass where Greene and the other sprinters had vomited.
  • With a 10km climb to the finish, this stage was a crucial one for the overall classification and was always going to count against the sprinters. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like 100-meter sprinters, the top finishers in Olympic and world slalom races are separated by only hundredths of a second.
  • Now that he has looked at himself closely, the sprinter knows he was naive, headstrong and suggestible.
  • Nothstein, clearly the most dominant men's sprinter on the track, missed a second medal in the Keirin, finishing fifth.
  • Olympic champion Maurice Greene's status as the world's No 1 sprinter looks shakier than ever and a host of other top name American stars have struggled as Britain's track aces, led by Campbell, bloom.
  • A big-name sprinter will run in the stadium for the first time later this month on a 60-metre running track to tie in with the two-year milestone. London Olympic venues 'will be finished early and under budget'
  • The Australian champion has had a sensational season and should be among the best sprinters when the Tour gets under way.
  • Now she is an athlete, a medal-winning sprinter whose earnings have helped her family build this house.
  • There is just as much of a distinction in wheelchair racing between sprinters relying on explosive power and the tactical acumen and endurance needed by middle-distance specialists. Times, Sunday Times
  • But Manchester's own Olympic sprint gold medallist today launched a campaign to discover a potential successor to his crown as Britain's top sprinter.
  • But Pendleton helped change perceptions of the sport and forced the Olympic authorities to adjust the balance so that women sprinters can now compete in the keirin and team sprint. Victoria Pendleton: 'Dreaming of being chased by a killer is normal'
  • Comparing Olympic hopeful sprinter Oscar Pistorius, a double-leg amputee, to ultrarunner Amy Palmiero-Winters, a single-leg amputee, is impossible, says the co-author of a study that found Pistorius 'light and springy prosthetics enhanced sprint speeds by 15%-30%. Running down a dream: Leg amputee makes U.S. track team
  • He is built like a sprinter used to be, short and squat, with strong legs and a deep laugh. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now she wants to fill the void in British women sprinters, but she will do it her way. Times, Sunday Times
  • Winds gusting against a brawny sprinter riding a disc-wheel bike at 60 kph round a high bend are a recipe for disaster.
  • Millar was quickly left looking for the 'grupetto' - the group of sprinters and non-climbing specialists which usually forms on the climb in a collective effort to make it through the day. Bicycle.net | Attitude is Everything
  • Perhaps not, but Lemaitre's rise to fame – and subsequent lucrative sponsorship deals – has led some black athletes in France privately to question the fairness of a sprinter benefiting from such commercial success, despite not making even the top 10 fastest men in the world. Christophe Lemaitre, France's premier blanc, seeks grand cru status
  • Already accepted as the fastest sprinter in the world, the green jersey would be indisputable confirmation. Times, Sunday Times
  • One event for the sprinter pumped up on growth hormones and another for the free-range slowpoke.
  • In full stride in the 400 meters, his head is arched back, his step shorter than the classic sprinter.
  • Another fine joke involves a thick rope, while there's an extended and literal running gag that transforms one circular sprinter into a misplaced couch potato. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the outset I assumed I would end up with two sprinters, two milers and two long-distance runners.
  • They're the sprinters, he says, whereas malamutes are sloggers, which were used in days of yore for hauling heavy freight.
  • I was a good sprinter and often represented my school at interschool meets - and always ran barefoot. There was a time...
  • As Maggie eases him over the stern of the catamaran, his flippers feel water - and suddenly he's out of the blocks like an Olympic sprinter.
  • They found that the knees and ankles of the top 100m sprinters were the most symmetrical. Times, Sunday Times
  • Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) Boasson Hagen is not an out-and-out sprinter but Team Sky’s deadliest weapon in one-day races has an acceleration that is hard to match, and can put it to good use going uphill as well. Favorites for Sunday’s world road race championships
  • The general behavior of the sprinters - lording it over their opponents in a taunting and self-congratulatory manner - was the opposite of what the Olympics are supposed to be about: international friendship and solidarity.
  • The kinesiologists found that the sprinters increased their endurance by an average of 26 minutes.
  • Not one of the pure sprinters was there for the finish. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sprinter is training in Jamaica as he awaits the outcome of the arbitration hearing that could overturn his lifetime Olympic ban. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sprinter is serving a two-year ban from track and field. USATODAY.com - Sprinter reveals career demise
  • (Yes, there are "joggers" and "sprinters," the former producing every day and the latter in bursts, but the total productivity required remains the same.) David H. Hendrickson: Measuring Progress
  • After waving away the help of race assistants in the broom wagon, Voigt battled on to finish the stage with the gruppetto, the group of sprinters and non-climbers who club together in a bid to beat the time cut-off. Jens Voigt shrugs off another high-speed crash at the Tour de France
  • With a 10km climb to the finish, this stage was a crucial one for the overall classification and was always going to count against the sprinters. Times, Sunday Times
  • The course again favors sprinters, and time differences are unlikely to be significant among the top three. Cavendish wins Stage 11; Armstrong safely in group
  • Norwegian Thor Hushovd of the Cervélo Test Team, angry about Monday's neutralized finish that cost him possible sprinter's points, won the teeth-rattling stage, some 8.2 miles of which were raced on what the French call pavé, to take the green jersey. Chron.com Chronicle
  • Campbell’s former career as a sprinter is one of which his wife is conspicuously proud. Two times a lady
  • Not one of the pure sprinters was there for the finish. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has been ranked one of the top ten sprinters in the world for the past ten years.
  • He has sprinter's speed, a card shark's confidence and playmaker's knack for action.
  • The result on a course which suited Cavendish's strengths as a sprinter was the culmination of three years' planning by British Cycling. Evening Standard - Home
  • Nike Nike's spots feature several athletes, including tennis player Maria Sharapova, sprinter Nicola Sanders and judoist Delphine Delsalle (above). Softer Nike Pitch Woos Europe's Women
  • Millar was quickly left looking for the ‘grupetto’ — the group of sprinters and non-climbing specialists which usually forms on the climb in a collective effort to make it through the day. David Millar’s stage 9 solo ride ‘embarrassing’
  • Sprinters need strong quadriceps for explosive power but this can create an imbalance, leading to more injuries Times, Sunday Times
  • Following his success at the European Championships last summer – the first sprinter to win three European gold medals – Lemaitre's father received a letter from the Ku Klux Klan inviting his son on a "courtesy" visit of the white supremacist group in their homeland of Texas. Christophe Lemaitre, France's premier blanc, seeks grand cru status
  • Another fine joke involves a thick rope, while there's an extended and literal running gag that transforms one circular sprinter into a misplaced couch potato. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was playing an ancient tape of a sprinter from the 2022 Olympics. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • The event could feature the best sprinters, milers, middle-distance Flat horses plus the best hurdlers and steeplechasers from around the world, with the leading two or three horses from each country taking part.
  • The Lampre rider collected his second stage win this Tour in the 95. 4-mile ride from Cambrai to the champagne capital Reims -- a mostly flat trek that was tailor-made for sprinters. Another Late Sprint Earns Petacchi Stage Win
  • The Greek media reacted with relief and amazement at their sprinters' announcements.
  • Another fine joke involves a thick rope, while there's an extended and literal running gag that transforms one circular sprinter into a misplaced couch potato. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm a long - distance runner , not a sprinter.
  • ATHENS Sometime Friday morning, a teenage sprinter from the newest nation in the Olympics, which has neither a television station nor a stoplight, will line up for the 100-meter dash. USATODAY.com - Small step at Olympics is giant leap for tiny island nation
  • At the end of Frankel's victory in last month's 2,000 Guineas, it was not the six-length winning margin that was the focus of discussion but the manner in which he blew away the opposition, an outstanding miler showing the pace of a champion sprinter. Sectional times to be recorded at Champions Day at Ascot in October | Will Hayler
  • The British sprinters are very lazy and don't really want to practise. The Sun
  • A sprinter gambolling down that long straight hill at a rainy Goodwood is operating in a totally-different theatre from a similar type of horse rushing around a cramped dirt bend in sunny California.
  • Brown, blessed with the size of a fullback and the speed of a sprinter, is an excellent receiver in addition to his skills as a power runner. USATODAY.com
  • While the British sprinter is the team's best-known rider, local fans would have preferred Italian national time trial champion Marco Pinotti to have had the honor. American team Columbia wins Giro opener, Armstrong and Astana third
  • The sprinters claim they were unaware of the tests and had returned home for personal belongings.
  • The Olympic sprinter got away. Times, Sunday Times
  • The champion sprinter had become a stayer: it was time to put the old warhorse out to pasture. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's odd to see Ellis and Glover lined up with two hands on the ground, legs spread and feet even, more like sumos than sprinters.
  • My team came to win the race and we have Capecchi in good form, and a sprinter like Guarneri, who has chances to win the first stage. Basso, at the Tour de San Luis, says he’s still undecided about the Giro
  • She looks up and nearly jumps out of her skin. She runs like an Olympic sprinter, hurdling two garbage cans before reaching her house.
  • The country's leading sprinters kick off the heats with the 50m dash - a tough line-up to just make the semi-final among the men.
  • He has been the trailblazer and given British sprinters the belief that we are able to take on and beat the world's best.
  • We don't have any sprinters to contest these stages, so we just focus on keeping our concentration and staying out of trouble again tomorrow.
  • The Jamaican sprinter is the first under 11 seconds this year. USATODAY.com - Athlete of the Week Spearmon fends off Wariner challenge in 200
  • My horse of the season donkey-licked Mosheen, an accomplished group-one filly, and held a decision over the top-class sprinter Rain Affair.
  • But Sprinter Sacre is in the same class and we can expect thrills galore from him in future. The Sun
  • A record-breaking sprinter in his youth - his collegiate mark in the 60-yard dash stood for decades - he has revealed, in his first term, the tirelessness, stamina and patience of a long-distance runner.
  • Australia have a nine-man team of riders with different abilities, including reigning champion Cadel Evans, an all-rounder, and two sprinters inAllan Davis and Matthew Goss. Cavendish feeling more optimistic about elite road race
  • He grabbed the highly prized green jersey as the fastest sprinter in the Tour de France in the summer. The Sun
  • Wednesday's ride covers 119 miles from Vatan to Saint-Fargeau and again favors sprinters. Cavendish wins 10th stage; no changes in overall standings
  • In the 1980s steroids were the rage among power athletes, like weightlifters and sprinters.
  • In the stadium, the sprinters are getting themselves ready for the 100-metre race.
  • Sports physiologists address such questions as: What distinguishes a sprinter from a marathon runner - and each from the ungifted struggler?
  • At school and after Eric was a great sprinter and he brought along his old vest from his days with the Town Athletic Club.
  • How can we not wonder what we're watching when an Olympic sprinter explodes off the block? Times, Sunday Times
  • Not one of the pure sprinters was there for the finish. Times, Sunday Times
  • The federal criminal investigation is being led by Jeff Novitzky, who made his name busting sprinter Marion Jones and several Major League Baseball players for using performance-enhancing drugs. Fans Unfazed By New Armstrong Doping Allegations
  • The Jeremy Wariner-led U.S. medal sweep at the Athens Olympics heralded a new era for American sprinters.
  • He's compact and sturdy yet runs like a sprinter.
  • So there is a delicious little nugget: the best sprinter of a generation does not have a marginal gain yet to reap, he has a significant one. Times, Sunday Times
  • In her defence the long jumper and former sprinter points out she was young, innocent and unquestioning.
  • Most elite sprinters are average height because taller ones tend to be in other sports. Times, Sunday Times
  • Faces a tough campaign now as a threeyear-old against the top sprinters. The Sun
  • When sprinters are jostling for position races are won and lost in a split second. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
  • So there is a delicious little nugget: the best sprinter of a generation does not have a marginal gain yet to reap, he has a significant one. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sprinters can do whatever they like, but quarter-milers are a bit different. Times, Sunday Times
  • Led by sprinter Libby Trickett and breaststroker Leisel Jones, the Australian women could, like the U.S. men, post 1-2 finishes and be a force in the relays. Highs, lows for Team USA at swimming, track and field trials
  • She was fifth in the worlds and she is one of the top two female sprinters in the country. Times, Sunday Times
  • He says he is a sprinter by nature, too impatient to see results to work more slowly with hand tools as he used to do until 1977, when he stopped sawing firewood with a bowsaw and discovered a tool that suited his nature. Wildwood
  • Spain will be counting on Oscar Freire, a sprinter who can climb well andis known to like slightly uphill finishes like the one in Geelong. Cavendish feeling more optimistic about elite road race
  • Meet the 2011 Airstream Interstate 3500, a class "B" motor coach built on a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van chassis with coachwork by the good folks in Jackson Center, Ohio. Roughing It in a Not-So-Luxurious Luxury RV
  • The disqualification of Greece's two top sprinters hardly tarnishes the Olympic gold standard as some seem to think.
  • Another fine joke involves a thick rope, while there's an extended and literal running gag that transforms one circular sprinter into a misplaced couch potato. Times, Sunday Times
  • The best Sprinter chassis for a MH is the 3500 I would think. Brad Ideas - Comments
  • Meanwhile, at Doncaster there were half-bottles of champagne all round for the Scottish owners of star sprinter Chookie Heiton.
  • The band know how to enjoy themselves, like the Jamaican sprinter. The Sun
  • The best sprinters are just looking at the track ahead of them and the white lines either side. Times, Sunday Times
  • With a 10km climb to the finish, this stage was a crucial one for the overall classification and was always going to count against the sprinters. Times, Sunday Times
  • But it is only thanks to her big brother Marlon, a useful sprinter, that she turned to athletics.
  • Coming into the Olympics, the British sprinters' heads were bowed by the weight of their accusers and they ran as if carrying the cares of the world.
  • But she became the first Asian sprinter to win a gold medal in those collegiate athletic games.
  • And he will again be one of the leading sprinters in the peloton throughout the race.
  • Instead, he struggled to stay with the 'grupetto', the band of non-climbers and sprinters which forms in a collective bid to set a steady pace that allows them to battle the pain and beat the time cut-off. Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News
  • He is built like a sprinter used to be, short and squat, with strong legs and a deep laugh. Times, Sunday Times
  • Will Valerie Fleming, a former sprinter and javelin thrower and current brakeman for bobsled driver (and former pro soccer player) Shauna Rohbock, get her Olympic medal on the track at Cesana Pariol?
  • Smith flashes a smile and scuffs his foot across a swath of browned grass where Greene and the other sprinters had vomited.
  • Also appearing in the spots are Simona La Mantia, an Italian triple-jumper, Nicola Spirig, a Swiss triathlete, Nicola Sanders, a British sprinter, and Delphine Delsalle, a French judoist. Softer Nike Pitch Woos Europe's Women
  • The Italian is hyped by many as a future top sprinter and classics man and won a stage at the Tour du Limousin in what was a solid rookie season. Hunt, Appollonio land at Team Sky; two more for Geox
  • Most elite sprinters are average height because taller ones tend to be in other sports. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the end the Lampre rider was left battling to stay within the time limits with the sprinters and other non-climbers among an 84-strong gruppetto that finished 34 minutes in arrears. Thor Hushovd says Alessandro Petacchi remains top rival for Tour’s green jersey
  • The sprinters get out of the blocks in the 100m as Oxford produce a superb overall team performance in the FEAR competition against Cambridge
  • But this does not imply that the track sprinter can get by with training only a few days a week.
  • A moonwalk of a type: her strides long and easy, her speed impossible even for the fastest of sprinters. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • There are a lot of professional riders from Australia in the peloton that are not sprinters.
  • One by one, sprinters clad in the white USA unitards, trimmed in red and blue, trudged through the media zone and tried to explain what should be unthinkable, but has become painfully routine.
  • Normally, she is a faster sprinter than me. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sprinters are pretty individualised, and I didn't think I needed it.
  • You can be a world-class sprinter, and you still have no chance to chase down the pelota.
  • Confirming what we've suspected in Australia for a while that despite our stayers not being up to international standard, our sprinters are the best in the world.
  • He shaped well on his debut and looks a sprinter to follow after going one better in emphatic style at Newbury last time. Times, Sunday Times
  • To the inexperienced observer, sprinters are experts at wasting time.
  • The champion sprinter had become a stayer: it was time to put the old warhorse out to pasture. Times, Sunday Times
  • Young helped Rob Bironas get in position for his fourth field goal by tossing a short pass to fullback Ahmard Hall and watching him outrace defenders as if he was an Olympic sprinter for a 54-yard gain. USATODAY.com
  • The 23-year-old Swiss rider stormed clear with one kilometre to go as the sprinters were amassing for a bunch finish.
  • The Olympic sprinter will be allowed to serve the remainder under house arrest from Tuesday. The Sun
  • Sure, other steel handlebars have been made before for track sprinters who insist on steel for stiffness.
  • A moonwalk of a type: her strides long and easy, her speed impossible even for the fastest of sprinters. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW

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