Sentence examples for discus from inspiring English sources

Given the accuracy of the masonry and missiles being directed at the police lines you could have been forgiven for thinking that some of the Ardoyne rioters would be ideal candidates for the javelin, discus and shot put teams of the British Olympic team for London 2012 … if of course they were ever prepared to join any entity with the word "British" in it.

Brett Morse got the nod ahead of the British record holder Lawrence Okoye in the discus after beating his rival at the trials and the Aviva London Grand Prix on Saturday.

Aled Davies was named as the SJA's paralympic sportsman of the year after his F42 discus and F42/44 shotput gold medals at the world championships.

Carl Myerscough picked up bronze in the discus with a best throw of 60.64m, just 13 centimetres ahead of Apostolos Parellis in fourth.

Lawrence Okoye, who represented Great Britain in the discus at the London Olympics, is currently on the San Francisco 49ers practice squad after deciding to swap sports.

An American discus thrower once tested positive for the anabolic steroid, nandrolone but he was exonerated because the doctor accidentally mislabelled one of the two sample bottles.Another American, Butch Reynolds, a 400-metres runner, tested positive for a steroid after a race in Monaco in 1990, and was banned for two years.

Suspicious ratios were also found in volleyball players, runners, wrestlers and discus throwers.By 1988, though, athletes had found a way to sabotage the older techniques, which were still effective against users of drugs other than testosterone.

"Last minute", however, was too late for some would-be Olympians, who missed registration deadlines; only two athletes—Haidar Nasir, a discus thrower, and Danma Hussein, a sprinter will compete.Asking a lot"Beijing's air quality today…shows China's growth model of 'develop first and clean up later' is wrong and should be dropped as soon as possible".

The latter was an all-around competition consisting of five events the long jump, the javelin throw, the discus throw, a footrace, and wrestling.

This reading will in turn form the basis for discus-sion and short writing exercises that will enable you to text out how a biography is made.

During the Olympic games in China in 2008 it sent the Discobolus, the discus-thrower of Myron, to Shanghai where 5,000 people queued each day to see it.