Sentence examples for athletes torch from inspiring English sources

She also praised the athletes, torch bearers and volunteer Games Makers for inspiring the country with their efforts.

The athletes, local torch bearers and Games Makers will be toasted by the town and borough mayors.

With three months until the United States Olympic trials and four months to Athens, she is not the same athlete who torched competitors on her way to the Sydney Olympics.

We are told that 260 British Olympic medal winners are on hand, as the young athletes split the torch seven ways.

But while we've been, um, sitting, our favorite athletes have been torching serious calories on their way to the medal stand.

An accomplished athlete The Olympic torch relay was devised during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and has since been held in Olympics host countries.

At first light today, Greg Norman, one of the best-known Australian athletes, accepted the Olympic torch in the middle of the Sydney Harbor Bridge as the torch relay began its final 12 hours of a 100-day journey to tonight's opening ceremony.

One of the world's greatest ever athletes carried the Olympic Torch around Stonehenge at sunrise today.

"If I have to be the athlete to carry the torch and pave the way for other innocent players to see that you can do something about it, I am proud to be that person.

Mr. Poncelet carried a letter from Mr. Sarkozy to President Hu Jintao of China, in which he apologized for the events in Paris and invited the Chinese athlete who protected the torch against protesters in Paris, Jin Jing, to come to the Élysée Palace.

SOINA athlete represents Indonesia as torch bearer in run-up to 2012 London Olympics, 18 April 2012 Indonesia's Special Olympics' gold medalist, Stephanie Handojo, will represent her country as a torch bearer in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics.