Sentence examples for downhill stage from inspiring English sources

But it's still the longest timed downhill stage in the world and the only one with a mass start on a glacier, which adds a level of jostling to the proceedings.

He has since coached all levels and even helped prepare the course for the World Cup Women's Downhill, staged on a terrifyingly steep 70-second course.

As if to fuel the prestage drama, Froome had almost crashed into Contador during a furious downhill chase on Stage 16, and later chided him, saying he should ride more safely.

"We were just trying to ride face down so the hail didn't hit our faces," added Froome, who took the yellow jersey with a downhill attack and stage win a day earlier.

On the official results sheet from the men's downhill, which was staged on the opening Monday, the snow condition was listed succinctly as "granular".

Never a great climber but known for his furious descents, he was competing in his last Giro d'Italia, in 1956, when he crashed on a downhill during the 12th stage and fractured his collarbone.

The start of the third stage was moved downhill after the opening descent was found to be too dangerous for the participants' brakes.

A typical enduro race involves a series of stages combining timed downhill sections with untimed uphills.

Everything starts going downhill in the middle of this stage, so brace yourself and don't get too tired.

For many of these children, an illness at this stage pushes them even faster downhill, losing precious skills.

This suggests that the primary aggregation and pre-nucleation stage is primarily an energetically downhill process.