Sentence examples for hurdle in the first from inspiring English sources

Liu Xiang, the Chinese star who was unable to defend his title in 2008, hit the first hurdle in the first round here and ended up hopping to the finish line.

Burress dropped three first-half passes to grease the skid toward a two-touchdown deficit; after catching five passes in the second half, he said the team's biggest hurdle in the first half was "me".

Patterson, 27, an amateur rider from Wilmington, Del., who was aboard Flat Top for his victories in the Grade II Ferguson Memorial at Colonial Downs and the Grade I Breeders' Cup Grand National at Far Hills, N.J., last month, sustained head injuries when her mount, Raptor, fell over the next-to-last hurdle in the third race.

Haynes overcame her biggest hurdle in the fourth inning.

She hit the hurdle two and hurdle eight in the first event, didn't get a lot of warm-up for the high jump, the javelin was naff by her usual standards, but we've learnt from that".

Natalie Ward won the 300 hurdles in 45.6, the second fastest time in NHHS history and Emily Bacon won the 3,200 in 11 40.5.

Floréal also coaches Keni Harrison, the world-record holder in the women's 100 hurdles, who hit the first hurdle in her semifinal Friday night but recovered to squeak into the final as the last qualifier.

What was the biggest hurdle that was established in the first film that you had to work around?

However, 1984-85 would be a season of disappointment, as Feyenoord fell at the first hurdle in the European Cup, going out of the competition in Athens against Panathinaikos.

The Moroccans, who fell at the first hurdle in the last two Nations Cup finals, are rebuilding their team almost from scratch under former goalkeeper Bedou Ezaki.

"You could argue that it fell at the first hurdle in the form of Google Glass, which everyone thought would revolutionise things but which hasn't.