Sentence examples for Sporting feat from inspiring English sources

He just wanted to be at peace with himself". Writing a biography of Merckx is something of a sporting feat in itself.

Once done, there was only one way to celebrate her remarkable sporting feat: curry and chips – although her plan to wash it down with the beers she had stashed in the boot of her car was met with complications.

You can ladle all the meaning on to it you like – and the sight and sound of middle England collectively losing its marbles for a Somali-born, west London-raised man of the people was something to behold – but at its core this was simply an imperious sporting feat.

We'd go down to the river and watch Oxford and Cambridge battle it out, it was an impressive sporting feat, the race was exciting, but I could never stand there and say, 'I want to do that.' It wasn't an option for girls.

Sporting feats 11 Paralympic gold medals (including four golds at both Barcelona Games in 1992 and Sydney Games in 2000); four silvers; one bronze (her first medal at Seoul Games in 1988).

Other concerns were common to every Games: the incongruity of watching stellar sporting feats where the only food and drink on offer was McDonalds or Coca Cola thee command and control that forbade Norwegian cross-country skiers from wearing black armbands in support of a recently deceased relative, the uniformity from Games to Games and the needless pomposity.

England captain Sean O'Loughlin said: "All the players and staff are acutely aware of the fantastic tradition of sporting feats between England and Australia and this jersey will bring 100 years of rivalry out of the history books and on to the pitch". killed South Africa captain Senzo Meyiwa on Twitter.

More than 11,000 athletes competed in 302 events in 28 sports, but the Beijing Games were dominated by two historic sporting feats.

Quite where Murray's Wimbledon win will rest alongside the great individual British sporting feats of the post-war years is a matter for interminable debate.

An Olympic champion cyclist, she pulled off one of the more remarkable sporting feats of recent years when finishing fifth in a steeplechase at the Cheltenham Festival, barely a year after sitting on a horse for the first time.

It is an astonishing little vignette, witnessed by the Guardian's EA Montague, and it is worth dwelling on the astonishing sporting feats of Owens, because they are so often smothered by the political import attached to them.