Sentence examples for contest fell from inspiring English sources

The last time the final game suffered such a big drop was in 1980, when the 19.8 rating for the Louisville-U.C.L.A. contest fell 17.8percentt from the 24.1 rating for the scintillating 1979 Indiana State-Michigan State matchup.

Twenty-year-old Serena beat 21-year-old Venus 7-5, 6-3 on a bright and blustery afternoon to become the 2002 French Open champion, but the contest fell some way short of answering those critics who dismiss their matches as family charades directed by their father Richard.

Following her stay in Sweden, Paparizou flew to Istanbul, Turkey where the Greek delegation met with Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who told her that it was good luck that the contest fell on her name-day of May 21.

Bayern players finished the contest falling over to feign injuries and running the ball to the corner flags to wind down the clock.

They did not get a field goal for the first 9 minutes 18 seconds in this contest, falling behind by 21-7.

When seeing that one of the contestants fell on his back and was being beaten by his opponents, Tiridates I saw exclaimed: "That's an unfair contest.

When Cielo and Guido were reunited in a 100m freestyle contest, Guido fell behind and lost.

Then the national contest would fall to bits.

The contest was falling into a pattern that he knew too well.

But his peak performance stands higher and higher, while everything that once seemed to contest it falls away.

For a contest about falling behind and trying to keep up with life, we sure got a lot of fast answers from on-the-ball people.