Sentence examples for familiar rivalry from inspiring English sources

Jason Richardson, the reigning world champion from the United States, was second in 13.04; Hansle Parchment was third in 13.12 to give Jamaica its first Olympic medal in the 110 hurdles and perhaps signal a new twist on the familiar rivalry between the United States and Jamaica.

You can't help wonder how different the reaction would be if it were Serena Williams, the figure to whom her career is inextricably linked by virtue of a numbingly familiar rivalry that's seen the world No1 win their last 18 matches over more than 11 years, an astonishing run that includes seven meetings at grand slams and three in major finals.

But hopes foundered on familiar rivalries and suspicions.

But in a world of intense competition from the booming cities of the East, as well as the more familiar rivalries with the likes of Paris and New York, London cannot rely on its inherent strengths alone.

At the end of which the summer now seems set fair for a sustained and no doubt deeply agonising restaging of cricket's most waspishly familiar fraternal rivalry.

So once again the sisters are poised to renew their familiar family rivalry in Saturday's final unless the Belgian axis of Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin-Hardenne can bring them down tomorrow.

By contrast, the members of family dynasties — Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy — were intimately familiar with rivalries and power politics long before they entered the Oval Office.

In that way, these Games will probably be no different from others because they will feature familiar themes: rivalries among countries, breakthrough tricks or achievements, and the pathos of returning athletes making a last Olympic stand.

So by 1980, when Hull and Rovers contested the Challenge Cup final at Wembley, he was familiar with their rivalry.

Dolphins, 28-10 Chicago (11-3) at Detroit (1-13) This is a familiar and layered rivalry with plenty of upsets littered throughout the series.

This is a former Soviet republic with Western aspirations -- a plum for both Moscow and Washington -- and it is the arena for a familiar and dangerous rivalry that evokes the atmosphere of the cold war.