Sentence examples for athletes down from inspiring English sources

Other nations hesitate to complain, fearful that retaliatory judges will mark their athletes down, like day-old bread.

"I don't believe he did anything illegal, but if it meant bringing athletes down during baseball season, or destroying baseball, my client would seek a resolution short of a jury trial".

After four beaming badminton players had their places confirmed, there are 121 athletes down and 429 to go in the selection of GB's self-styled "greatest ever" Olympic team.

In the past few years he has weathered storms over jokes about Paralympic athletes, Down's syndrome children, and his grandparents dying in a car crash (a joke made shortly after the M5 pile-up).

She has a nutrition programme and she will take her shopping list, as will many athletes, down to the supermarket and cook in a communal kitchen.

Coe was in the habit even then of taking young athletes down to stand them on the site of the track and have them imagine the finish line.

At the finish line, Mann had looked over to see an athlete down and a yellow flag waving.

"When he breaks another athlete down, he looks at the smallest things – the way they are running, the height they bring their knees, he kind of gives me that to go off".

We see a considerable number of student-athletes turning down athletic scholarships from places like Stanford, Northwestern or Duke to come to Penn".

After that, though, the athletes slowed down considerably.

Only slowly, after that, did the bar on black athletes break down in the South.