Sentence examples for instead of athletes from inspiring English sources

My sense is that where men follow sport for role models, many women tend to read women's magazines instead; so instead of athletes, they measure their lives more against actresses, singers, models.

"Instead of being athletes, they became like workers.

Instead of encouraging athletes to upstage the Beijing Olympics politically, why not ask them to act out on stage?

Instead of helping athletes buy bigger mansions, Jim Crane is presumably paying off some of the debt he took on when his group of investors bought the team in 2011, improving youth development and community programmes and stockpiling cash for future acquisitions when the side finally looks like it might contend for the play-offs.

"This is one of the biggest game changers in sports," says Smith. "Now we can quantify what's going on, instead of telling athletes they're better or worse based on what they're telling us".

Had this incident involved a city official instead of an athlete, Nutter said, "I would insist on a suspension at a minimum and would seriously have to evaluate terminating such an individual".

"It's making Tebow out to be a god instead of an athlete," one person told the Christian Post.

Higgins does not consider it a disadvantage to be a professional and an athlete instead of a professional athlete.

Instead of showing Olympic athletes in action in London, England, viewers will see unknown athletes in towns and villages called London around the world.

Instead of housing the athletes in an anodyne village open the doors of Queen's and King's and let them in.

Glenn Robinson added 18. REBOUNDS United States men's Olympic players may stay on a ship in Athens instead of at the athletes' village as originally planned.