Sentence examples for a preliminary race from inspiring English sources

The Americans were not done: in a preliminary race, one of the team's sailors placed a bag of pellets in the front of Team Oracle's catamaran, to increase speed.

Before the nation moves on to the main event on Nov. 2 (early voting begins soon), a few preliminary races remain, with Hawaii voting Saturday and Louisiana holding its runoff on Oct. 2. The Hawaiian primaries include the heated race for the Democratic nomination for governor between Neil Abercrombie and Mufi Hannemann.

2.40am: Athletics: More heats success for Team GB! GB! GB! as Andrew Steele wins the sixth one-lap preliminary race in 44.94 seconds, which is a lifetime best.

LONDON – A chapter closed for Michael Phelps on Thursday when he competed in the last preliminary race of his career, in the 100-meter butterfly.

Between the morning and afternoon sessions (my prelim being in the morning and final being in the evening), I analyzed my preliminary race and assessed what I needed to do in the final.

This article proposes to expand this approach and apply it not only to preliminary gender but to the preliminary race classification as well.

Several of these introns, and the alternative splicing of this transcript were also supported by preliminary RACE experiments (see Additional File 1: Supplemental Table S4).

Some 40,000 people have already turned out to watch the preliminary races, an achievement all by itself in a city where 70% of residents say they have no relation with the waterfront.

Infrequently, a candidate for the House or Senate or the governor's mansion will sponsor a car in one of the preliminary races of the weekend.

A marathoner becomes accustomed to isolation, and during a training cycle there are no tune-up events, no preliminary races.

Chambers won all his preliminary races and reached the final, along with Lewis-Francis and Jason Gardener, but he suffered a cramp mid-race and ended up in last place.